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Message-Id: <20070424045801.607b30d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>"@linux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/
> > 
> > 
> > - Lots of x86 updates
> > 
> 
> Has somthing related with PTY's changed in this kernel ?

Not as far as I know, but there were some kobject_uevent changes which
might have caused udev upcalls to break.  Perhaps.

> I have to enable legacy PTY handling in a couple boxes to get ssh working.
> If not, I had openpty() errors and nor sshd nor virtual terminals (aterm) were
> able to get a terminal.

I have CONFIG_PM_LEGACY unset in at least one of my test configs and it
works OK here.

> User space (udev) is the same in three boxes and one works and two fail.
> I had /dev/ptmx everywhere and /dev/pts mounted
> 
> Any idea ?

Nope.  Can you please check 2.6.21-rc7-mm1, see if that fixed it?  If so,
it might have been the kobject_uevent thing.

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