From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:57:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20100824225703.GA5913@suse.de> References: <20100621153858.444695c0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1277244410.2195.47.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100622232108.26752ff8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1277462596.2143.101.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100625120329.1303aa61@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1282683470.8020.66.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100824211016.GA7176@suse.de> <1282687797.8020.108.camel@itpsd6lap> <20100824222035.GA10625@suse.de> <1282690232.8020.116.camel@itpsd6lap> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282690232.8020.116.camel@itpsd6lap> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Samo Pogacnik Cc: linux kernel , linux-embedded , Alan Cox On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:50:32AM +0200, Samo Pogacnik wrote: > Dne 24.08.2010 (tor) ob 15:20 -0700 je Greg KH zapisal(a): > > > > And what about the normal way of just writing to /dev/kmsg to do this? > > > > Why a whole new driver for this same functionality? > > > I must admit, i was not aware of the /dev/kmsg driver, but i made a few > > > tests and found out that it seems not to be possible to redirect console > > > to kmsg. > > > > See how systemd does this, as it sounds like exactly what you want to > > do. Look in either Fedora 14, or openSUSE Factory for examples of this, > > with no kernel changes needed. > > > I'll check out systemd. > > however:) > It may be that systemd does not cover the initrd part of the > initialization and it may be an overkill do introduce systemd to an > existing system just to be analyzed. No, it does cover that. You should be able to do that with a simple console redirection to /dev/kmsg What happened when you tried to do that? thanks, greg k-h