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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:16:47 -0700
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net>, linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:14:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > That's one extra process, not that much, right?
> > > 
> > > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust.
> > 
> > Fair enough.  So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros
> > to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd?
> 
> Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on.
> Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded.

So should this be dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED then?

thanks,

greg k-h