From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08C05442C for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723957982; cv=none; b=YRIKbjUHX9EynSKb/ml21uTejJIT0AkIAjOTF2g31GFwEkSAR6Y7zB+1LX9H/SSlbndn8I9cFiSvithoGp7y3i6iX6RegRguCXkH4v9EDcH8IYCZEguPIcDHxyNgrwB8egHewIWNDtuGIFCG+K5vgT8JiUrjJwhof1OgACHasR0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723957982; c=relaxed/simple; bh=eKgnAm4KSSYPDXAsF1ZEVtdLYW6zbqKZuZo5KjZEwdY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=IvfK69/wjFoFuOh6afFh7ca9BXBxe0j3qD02ZPL10OrYkaZgidhW+Zt9Za0WrWTFZiAmaOd7C+oXkfsErqGzZpDMjkhPsv+EseRgLAmHAcmgXIlIS/ZYDYyI4p7m2sf+RusIcYpbtw334nS6aObERVmj0kYMQ2P2PKb4OlEEyZA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=gB8LQCYI; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="gB8LQCYI" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AC37C32786; Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:13:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1723957981; bh=eKgnAm4KSSYPDXAsF1ZEVtdLYW6zbqKZuZo5KjZEwdY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gB8LQCYIZQDrrtQSuGRL3HSh52U3WNmavQdEV5P9v44k7d4hhMhXOXi90Lm17L4ri 8hLKLEC2DxrenRbZjbgQ/1BN/h771Y51sE2isdK6yX6tqDmzfRCywKCNus2P/w+crB 6DmRYRqLCxioasKDVPTPCdRo3KNYp9aOUBaopGeI= Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:12:58 +0200 From: Greg KH To: nerdopolis Cc: pmladek@suse.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, john.ogness@linutronix.de, senozhatsky@chromium.org, tglx@linutronix.de, tony@atomide.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bagas Sanjaya Subject: Re: VT-less kernels, and /dev/console on x86 Message-ID: <2024081821-taps-briskly-c23f@gregkh> References: <2669238.7s5MMGUR32.ref@nerdopolis2> <2669238.7s5MMGUR32@nerdopolis2> <4805768.rnE6jSC6OK@nerdopolis2> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4805768.rnE6jSC6OK@nerdopolis2> On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 10:31:17PM -0400, nerdopolis wrote: > The thought is that when distributions eventually decide to go VT-less they are > not going to want to change the kernel boot options in the bootloader config to > force console=ttynull, and might want this to happen automatically. If/when they want to do this, odds are a command line will be fine, or they will build in ttynull properly into their kernels. thanks, greg k-h