From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:19:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:19:34 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:22035 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:19:21 -0500 From: Stefani Seibold Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:17:54 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: Thunder from the hill , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: James Simmons In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012921175400.01429@deepthought.seibold.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Montag, 29. Januar 2001 18:40 schrieb James Simmons: > > You are right... this patch make no sense on a computer system with human > > interactions. But think on tiny hidden computers, like in a dishwasher or > > a traffic light. This computer are standalone, if it crash, then it will > > be rebooted. > > Nobody will attach a terminal to this kind of computer, nobody is > > interessted on a logfile. Nobody will see a oops, because nobdy is there. > > What do you suggest we do with /dev/console and stdin, stdout, stderr? > The kernel needs a /dev/console to boot with. This patch does not modify the /dev/console, nor stdin/stdout/stderr. I think you should try it, bevor you are posting... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/