From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Thayne Harbaugh" <tharbaugh@lnxi.com>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
"Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Linux Kernel Development" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:07:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041007100757.A10716@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410071017020.9319@waterleaf.sonytel.be>; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:18:51AM +0200
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:18:51AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> What about letting the kernel open the console without going through
> /dev/console? Since the kernel knows /dev/console is the device with major 5
> minor 1, why can't it just open (5, 1)? Then we don't need a /dev/console node,
> and things will never break.
Famous last words. What about the case where you don't have a console
device registered (eg in the case of an embedded device) ? Currently,
opening /dev/console fails in that circumstance.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-07 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 18:52 [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 20:27 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 21:06 ` Greg KH
2004-10-05 21:13 ` Russell King
2004-10-06 15:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 17:41 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:01 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:18 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:20 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-06 18:16 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 19:18 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 20:54 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 20:29 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 21:45 ` Russell King
2004-10-07 5:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-08 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-06 20:01 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 22:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 6:43 ` Russell King
2004-10-07 14:41 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-05 21:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-06 4:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-06 8:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 12:15 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 13:33 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 14:12 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 14:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 15:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:51 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 12:16 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 17:38 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:04 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:19 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:23 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 21:22 ` Thayne Harbaugh
2004-10-07 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-07 9:07 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-10-07 9:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 18:37 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-10-06 19:08 ` Jörn Engel
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