Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:58:23 +0200 (MEST) | From | Clifford Wolf <> | Subject | Re: Flexible Console open (really little patch) |
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On 17 Aug 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980816194907.12849B-100000@babylon.clifford.at> > By author: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > 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. > > > > 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.)
- clifford
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