From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006181836.GA27300@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041006180145.GC10153@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:01:45PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 6 October 2004 10:41:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Good point. So, should we do it in the kernel, in call_usermodehelper,
> > so that all users of this function get it correct, or should I do it in
> > userspace, in the /sbin/hotplug program?
> >
> > Any opinions?
>
> Kernel.
>
> Same reasoning as before, if someone comes along and creates a "much
> better" /sbin/hotplug which doesn't handle it, things will break
> again.
Ok, I buy it :)
Care to send a patch to do this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 18:52 [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 20:27 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 21:06 ` Greg KH
2004-10-05 21:13 ` Russell King
2004-10-06 15:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 17:41 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:01 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-06 19:20 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-06 18:16 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 19:18 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 20:54 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 20:29 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-06 21:45 ` Russell King
2004-10-07 5:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-08 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
2004-10-06 20:01 ` Russell King
2004-10-05 22:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-06 6:43 ` Russell King
2004-10-07 14:41 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-05 21:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-06 4:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-06 8:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 12:15 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 13:33 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 13:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 14:12 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 14:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 15:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 15:51 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-05 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 12:16 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 17:38 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 18:04 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 18:19 ` Greg KH
2004-10-06 19:23 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-06 21:22 ` Thayne Harbaugh
2004-10-07 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-07 9:07 ` Russell King
2004-10-07 9:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-06 18:37 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-10-06 19:08 ` Jörn Engel
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