From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:10:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100824211016.GA7176@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282683470.8020.66.camel@itpsd6lap>
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:57:50PM +0200, Samo Pogacnik wrote:
> On 25.06.2010 (Fri) at 12:03 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:
> > With my devices.txt owner hat on I'll allocate the minor as you suggest
> > (and double check this causes no problems), with my tty hat on can you
> > send it to GregKH for merging into the tree.
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope that this TTY driver is ok for merging. It is very basic -
> removed all flow control and rate limiting. Patch has been generated
> against 2.6.34 kernel version.
>
> Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk messages,
> via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store "console" messages
> inline with kernel messages for better analyses of the boot process, for
> example.
Why does this need to be a tty driver? Why not a misc device?
And what about the normal way of just writing to /dev/kmsg to do this?
Why a whole new driver for this same functionality?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-15 10:17 [PATCH] detour TTY driver Samo Pogacnik
2010-05-29 22:17 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-05-29 22:54 ` Alan Cox
2010-05-29 22:59 ` Al Viro
2010-05-29 23:33 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-09 22:37 ` [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-11 12:44 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-11 21:32 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-21 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-22 22:06 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-22 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-25 10:43 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-25 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-26 1:48 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-27 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-28 23:27 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-07-03 19:21 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-06-26 15:12 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-24 20:03 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-24 20:13 ` Greg KH
2010-08-24 20:57 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-24 21:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-24 22:09 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-24 22:20 ` Greg KH
2010-08-24 22:50 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-24 22:57 ` Greg KH
2010-08-24 23:22 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-24 23:12 ` Greg KH
2010-08-24 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-25 0:41 ` Greg KH
2010-08-25 6:50 ` Marco Stornelli
2010-08-25 10:08 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-25 15:57 ` Greg KH
2010-08-25 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-25 17:10 ` Greg KH
2010-08-25 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-25 18:16 ` Greg KH
2010-08-25 19:30 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-26 17:24 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-08-26 23:02 ` Greg KH
2010-08-25 18:44 ` Samo Pogacnik
2010-09-01 22:50 ` patch "add ttyprintk driver" added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2010-09-01 22:50 ` gregkh
2010-08-25 7:40 ` [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk Kay Sievers
2010-08-25 7:48 ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-24 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-24 22:02 ` Greg KH
2010-06-11 23:31 ` Samo Pogacnik
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