Jaunty kernel amd64/i386 config changes

Tim Gardner tcanonical at tpi.com
Mon Dec 22 15:24:42 UTC 2008


Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 19:26 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 
>> I am beginning to implement the various config changes listed in
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/2.6.28-2-generic-config
>>
> I'd like to request another change.
> 
> Can we reduce CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT to 0 (leaving
> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTS=y), this removes the need for 256 mknod() calls during
> boot.
> 
> Absolutely nothing we know of uses these legacy ptys (xterm statically
> linked with libc4?!) - though if someone really wants them, leaving the
> top option as y lets them create them with a boot-time option.
> 
> Scott

Done

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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