devfs(d) problem

[ib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ingo Brueckl)]

Hope, this is the right place to ask.

I'm using devfs with devfsd for some time now, no problems. So far, I had
kernel 2.4.20 and devfsd 1.3.23.

After updating to kernel 2.4.22 and devfsd 1.3.25 there are problems with
some devices (like /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ppp) which won't automatically
register any more. I can't, for example, do 'ls' on them: no such file. After
loading modules "serial" and "ppp_generic" using 'modprobe', the devices show
up normally.

This is from my modules.defvs, but as mentioned it worked until the update:

  # Serial ports
  alias     /dev/tts*           serial
  alias     /dev/ttyS*          serial
  alias     /dev/cua*           serial

  # PPP devices
  alias     /dev/ppp*           ppp_generic

How can I figure out what's going wrong?

Ingo