Willy Tarreau a écrit :

>On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Baptiste Malguy wrote:
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>>In relation to this patch, I want to say that many many websites, FAQs, 
>>... say that you must
>>have something like console="/dev/ttyX CONSOLE=/dev/ttyN" to redirect 
>>the kernel and init
>>messages.
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>>About 'CONSOLE=', that's true because this is a environment variable 
>>that /sbin/init obtains.
>>About 'console=', it's completly wrong ! 'console=' expects a driver 
>>name (example: "tty",
>>"tty1", "ttyS0"), not device file name. Only the Linux source code 
>>reading and a few websites
>>says the right usage of 'console='.
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>If there really are FAQ reporting this, it might be simpler to make the
>kernel accept /dev/XXX than to try to fix all FAQs, and it would be more
>intuitive to people who type on lilo command line.
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I guess you are right. However, all I've done (and again, essentially, 
using someone else
code) is to fix of bug. Changing the way the 'console=' argument works 
is more a
design stuff.

If all the console drivers' names are based on the device file name 
(that is "tty" for "/dev/tty1",
ort "/dev/tty2", ...) it can be easily done by dropping "/dev/" from the 
'console=' argument value, in
one C file. However, a device file name can be anything you want. So the 
"/dev/" wouldn't work.

I don't know if that's the good way to do it. Maybe a more complete 
work, like looking at the device file,
its major and minor and the corresponding driver, would be a better idea.

>You'd better send an "unified diff" (diff -u) which includes one level of
>kernel directory. You diff then starts like this :
>--- linux-2.4.22/drivers/char/console
>+++ linux-2.4.22-bm1/drivers/char/console
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Yes, sure, I read that before and did not even do that .... I'd better 
sleep more at night :)
Here it comes now.

I have tested with 'vga=normal' and 'vga=792'. That's fine for me. 
However, I may have not taken in
consideration some locks required. I let interested people test for a 
few days before sending to Marcello.

Thank you for your comments.

-- 
Baptiste Malguy - http://baptiste.malguy.net
Ingénieur en informatique libre