Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:03:39 +0200 (MEST) | From | Clifford Wolf <> | Subject | Flexible Console open (really little patch) |
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Hi Linus, hi Kernel Gang,
I have a little patch here to make the opening of the initial console more flexible: It tries first to open /etc/console and after that /dev/console. The reason for this oerder is that one does not have controll of /dev/console if useing Richards devfs driver. Since /etc/console does not exist on most systems it will still open /dev/console on default. But if you use the devfs filesystem as /dev/ and you haven't enabled the "mount at boot time" option there will be no /dev/console and one can use /etc/console instead. On the other hand if you are using the "mount at boot time" option and you are not happy with the normal /dev/console you can override it useing /etc/console.
The patch adds the CREDIT entry for my menuconfig/lxdialog hack (which is part of the kernel since 2.1.110) too. Here is it:
--- linux/init/main.c Sun Aug 16 17:49:57 1998 +++ linux/init/main.c Sun Aug 16 18:50:34 1998 @@ -1291,7 +1291,8 @@ setup(1); - if (open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0) + if (open("/etc/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0 && + open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0) printk("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n"); (void) dup(0); --- linux/CREDITS Sun Aug 16 17:49:47 1998 +++ linux/CREDITS Sun Aug 16 18:54:16 1998 @@ -1954,6 +1954,15 @@ S: Wayville SA 5034 S: Australia +N: Clifford Wolf +E: god@clifford.at +W: http://www.clifford.at/ +D: Menuconfig/lxdialog improvement +D: Flexible console open +S: Foehrengasse 16 +S: A-2333 Leopoldsdorf b. Wien +S: Austria + N: Roger E. Wolff E: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl D: Written kmalloc/kfree -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Clifford Wolf magnet - Internet at Work IRC: efnet / clifford Director of System Development http://www.clifford.at/ e-mail: c.wolf@magnet.at email: god@clifford.at
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