Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable

Russell King
2004-10-05T20:27:18Z

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Looks pretty trivial, but opinions on this subject may vary.
> Comments?

There's a related problem. /sbin/hotplug. I keep seeing odd failures
from /sbin/hotplug scripts which go away when I ensure that fd0,1,2 are
directed at something real.

It's rather annoying because it currently means that, when my PCMCIA net
interface on the firewall comes up, the IPv4 configuration works fine
but IPv6 configuration falls dead on its nose without any explaination
why.

And, like I say, redirecting fd0,1,2 fixes it.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core