Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre7

[Bongani]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:35, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > 16 10:44:42 bogomips agetty[1111]: ttyS0: ioctl: Input/output error
> > > Apr 16 10:44:52 bogomips init: Id "S0" respawning too fast: disabled
> > > for 5 minutes
> > 
> > Hi, I found that my ttyS0 had turned into ttyS1 :-) My modem was
> > unresponsive, until I changed the setting to use ttyS1, hope this helps.
> 
> Making getty using ttyS1 works for me too, I have my login prompt back.
> Looks like a off-by-one bug ...
> 
>   Gerd
> 
And I thought devfs was the one responsible for changing ttyS0 to
ttyS1. But I this is happening on 2.4.19-pre6. If I remember correctly
this started happening when I decided to use devfs. I will disable devfs
and see if it happens again. Is anyone else with the sane problem also
using devfs?