svn commit: r233271 - in head/sys: amd64/conf arm/conf i386/conf ia64/conf mips/conf pc98/conf powerpc/conf sparc64/conf

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 21 March 2012 12:38, Ed Schouten <ed at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Wed Mar 21 08:38:42 2012
> New Revision: 233271
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/233271
>
> Log:
>  Remove pty(4) from our kernel configurations.
>
>  As of FreeBSD 8, this driver should not be used. Applications that use
>  posix_openpt(2) and openpty(3) use the pts(4) that is built into the
>  kernel unconditionally. If it turns out high profile depend on the
>  pty(4) module anyway, I'd rather get those fixed. So please report any
>  issues to me.
>
>  The pty(4) module is still available as a kernel module of course, so a
>  simple `kldload pty' can be used to run old-style pseudo-terminals.

Will this affect old binaries like misc/mc build for e.g. 6.x running on GENERIC
w/o kldoaded pty(4), so that I will have to `kldload pty'?
Currently executing old mc results in emitting the following kernel message:

pid 11948 (mc) is using legacy pty devices - not logging anymore

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