From: Andrew Lunn Create the pty slaves on init so the behaviour is consistant with 2.4 and 2.6 without devfs. 25-akpm/drivers/char/pty.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/pty.c~pty-devfs-fix drivers/char/pty.c --- 25/drivers/char/pty.c~pty-devfs-fix Tue Sep 2 10:12:27 2003 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/pty.c Tue Sep 2 10:12:46 2003 @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int __init pty_init(void) pty_slave_driver->init_termios = tty_std_termios; pty_slave_driver->init_termios.c_cflag = B38400 | CS8 | CREAD; pty_slave_driver->flags = TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS | - TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS; + TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW; pty_slave_driver->other = pty_driver; tty_set_operations(pty_slave_driver, &pty_ops); _