[Ian Campbell] > It's to support older applications which don't know about the > /dev/pyts/ interface. Whether the legacy device nodes come from a > static /dev or from udev doesn't really enter in to it.
/dev/{pts/,ptmx} are so trivial to support (in applications) that I
think it's worthwhile to disable legacy BSD pty support in Debian
kernels, and fix whatever still breaks. That is, unless we think there
are still a significant number of third-party non-free apps out there
still using them.
Likewise, I'd also support having udev ship a rule which by default
ignores /dev/{tty,pty}[p-za-e]*.
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