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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: "Valentin Vidić" <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/sclp_vt220: Fix console name to match device
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 09:14:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cba24059-b3a5-1587-c1f3-8d7dfd0807f5@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520070743.GO4974@valentin-vidic.from.hr>



On 20.05.20 09:07, Valentin Vidić wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 07:25:06AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> This is not as simple. ttyS1 is the the console name and ttysclp0 is the tty name.
>> This has mostly historic reasons and it obviously causes problems.
>> But there is  documentation out that that actually describes the use of 
>> console=ttyS1 console=ttyS0.
>> to have console output on both sclp consoles and there are probably scripts
>> using ttyS1.
>>
>> I am wondering. The tty for ttyS0 is named sclp_line0. Does this work in LPAR?
> 
> I ran into this problem with qemu-system-s390x, so not sure about LPAR.
> Would changing the tty name also cause problems?

My point was more that a similar issue should happen when installing in LPAR. LPAR
uses the line mode style console which is ttyS0 for the console but sclp_line0 for the
tty. How does the debian installer handle this?

Regarding your patch I fear that this patch would break existing setups so we cannot
use it as is.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 18:16 [PATCH] s390/sclp_vt220: Fix console name to match device Valentin Vidic
2020-05-20  5:25 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-05-20  7:07   ` Valentin Vidić
2020-05-20  7:14     ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2020-05-20  8:04       ` Valentin Vidić
2021-04-27 19:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Valentin Vidic
2021-04-28 12:39   ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-04-28 13:38   ` Hendrik Brueckner
2021-04-28 14:44     ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-04-28 16:13     ` Valentin Vidić

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