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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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ 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
2010-08-25  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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