From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 2] implement tty driver for netconsole Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:39:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081129.213947.185052916.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1227827385.3196.49.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hollisb@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mpm@selenic.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45323 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbYK3Fjr (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:39:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1227827385.3196.49.camel@calx> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Matt Mackall Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:09:45 -0600 > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 15:11 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > I have a Kuro Box (a small NAS device running Linux), and it has no serial > > console (nor any other console for that matter). The most convenient way to get > > boot output is via the netconsole driver, which is what most Kuro owners do. (The u-boot > > firmware even supports interactive netconsole allowing us to edit boot configuration.) > > > > However, once past kernel boot, userspace currently has no way of outputting data over > > netconsole. These patches enable that, which is really useful for seeing init > > script output and debugging ramdisks before they've brought up sshd. > > Awesome! I've been meaning to wire this up for ages. I'll try to look at > it over the weekend. Matt if your review goes OK please ACK this and I'll toss these patches into net-next-2.6 Thanks