Sorry to reply to myself, but i have not seen any response to this.
Acording to the linux/Documentation/devices.txt, revision July 9, 1996
found in the kernel release 2.0.36:
2 char Psuedo-TTY masters
0 = /dev/ptyp0 first PTY master
1 = /dev/PTYP1 second PTY master
...
255 = /dev/ptyef 256th PTY master
and:
3 char Psuedo-TTY slaves
0 = /dev/ttyp0 first PTY slave
1 = /dev/ttyp1 second PTY slave
...
255 = /dev/ttyef 256th PTY slave
and:
4 char TTY devices
0 = /dev/console console device
1 = /dev/tty1 first virtual console
...
63 = /dev/tty63 63rd virstual console
64 = /dev/ttyS0 first serial port
...
127 = /dev/ttyS63 63rd serial port
128 = /dev/ptyp0 first psuedo-tty master
...
191 = /dev/ptysf 64th pseudo-tty master
192 = /dev/ttyp0 first pseudo-tty slave
...
255 = /dev/ttysf 64th speudo-tty slave
it also states:
for compatibility with previous versions of linux, the first 64 PTY�s
are replicated under this device number. this use will be obsolet with
the release of linux 1.4 and may be removed in a future version of
linux.
we are now a linux 2.2.1, i am at kernel 2.0.36 where this messages
comes from. It does not ocure under kernel 2.0.35. I gues the future has
come.
Should this check be removed or used to indicate it is an older release
of linux and act acordingly (whatever that means) without the "Device
file /dev/ptyqb wrongly created" being displayed?
stephan Fassotte wrote:
>
> a piece from linuxconf logs:
>
> ...
> Manual action required
> * Device file /dev/ptyqb wrongly created
> Expected major 4, minor 155
> Found major 2, minor 27
> Manual action required
> * Device file /dev/ptyqc wrongly created
> Expected major 4, minor 156
> Found major 2, minor 28
> Manual action required
> * Device file /dev/ptyqd wrongly created
> Expected major 4, minor 157
> Found major 2, minor 29
> Manual action required
> ...
>
<snip> (6 pages)
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