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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding ctrl-o sysrq hack support to 8250 driver
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:10:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051209141049.GA31708@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051209140559.GA23868@suse.de>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:05:59PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> If you can queue this up in -mm for a decade or two, just to make sure
> it doesnt make some setup unhappy.
> 
> 
> a POWER4 system in 'full-system-partition' mode has the console device
> on ttyS0. But the user interface to the Linux system console may still
> be on the hardware management console (HMC). If this is the case, there
> is no way to send a break to trigger a sysrq.
> Other setups do already use 'ctrl o' to trigger sysrq. This includes iSeries
> virtual console on tty1, and pSeries LPAR console on hvc0 or hvsi0.
> 
> 'ctrl o' is currently mapped to 'flush output', see 'stty -a'

I still strongly disagree with the idea of using a well defined
control character which already has an expected purpose for this.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-09 14:05 [PATCH] Adding ctrl-o sysrq hack support to 8250 driver Olaf Hering
2005-12-09 14:10 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-12-09 15:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-09 15:19   ` Olaf Hering
2005-12-09 15:26     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-09 15:28       ` Olaf Hering
2005-12-09 15:25 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-09 15:34   ` Olaf Hering
2005-12-09 20:47     ` Olaf Hering
2005-12-09 17:08   ` Russell King
2005-12-12 10:03     ` Olaf Hering
2006-01-03 12:44       ` Olaf Hering

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