Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:36:04 +0200 (MEST) | From | Clifford Wolf <> | Subject | Re: Flexible Console open (really little patch) |
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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, david wrote:
> >> This is a broken patch for a broken problem. Please, don't put this > >> kind of crud in the kernel. > >> > >> -hpa > > > > I don't think so. It solves a problem at a very easy way and does not > > hurt anyone. We support a few paths for the init program - why don't > > be flexible with the path of /dev/console? (Specialy if there is a good > > reason for: it's possible that /dev will be mounted later from a boot > > script.) > > If the devfs "mount at boot time" option hasn't been selected, then the > user should select it. Making your root filesystem support a module > follows the same logic. > > Let's do things the Right Way (TM) instead of hacking things into our > kernel. This kind of hacking eventually leads to an "alternative this or > that" all over the place.
No - the idea is more to make it possible for the user to see all the warning messages generated by the boot scripts - so he can turn the option on. There is another point for allowing /etc/console: if the kernel opens /etc/console instead of /dev/console it's possible to unmount /dev from the single-user-mode (if you use /etc/console as tty). If one uses /dev/console, the device would be busy as long as init runs - so one could never unmount /dev (e.g. to see what's in /dev/ if devfs is not mounted).
- clifford
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