From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC, BAD IDEA] /proc/tty/console
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:49:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080228224923.fbbd97dc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080227181857.GA3137@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:18:57 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> The attached patch adds /proc/tty/console. The contents of it are
> simply a description of the current drivers attached to /dev/console.
> For example, a boot with 'console=ttyS3,115200n1 console=tty0' would
> yield:
>
> # cat /proc/tty/console
> unknown /dev/tty0
> serial /dev/ttyS3
I must say that the what-consoles-are-registered problem makes my head spin
sometimes too. Seems a worthy objective.
However I think that a bunch of plain old printks which are emitted when a
console is added or removed would suffice?
We should display each console's CON_foo flags too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 18:18 [PATCH, RFC, BAD IDEA] /proc/tty/console Bill Nottingham
2008-02-27 18:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-27 18:52 ` Bill Nottingham
2008-02-27 18:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-29 6:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-29 15:07 ` Bill Nottingham
2008-02-29 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
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