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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console is availlable
    On Wed, 6 October 2004 16:23:27 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
    >
    > Ehrm, what do you mean with `default' console?
    >
    > If you mean `console as defined under nr.2',
    correct
    > yes, you want the console that
    > does do input.

    *I* don't always do. Remember how this thread got started? ;)

    > > Taking the last one registered is basically random. If people care
    > > enough, they should explicitly state things on the command line.
    >
    > No, it's not. It's explicitly mentioned in the docs: if you use multiple
    > `console=', all of them get output, but input comes from the last one.

    Ah, true. I was barking up the "the was no 'console=' option, take
    the default" tree. Just started looking at the console code a few
    days ago.

    Still, it currently is the official interface and allows the user to
    do the right thing. It doesn't exactly make it hard to do the wrong
    thing, though. On Rusty's scale it should rate as 7 or 8.
    http://www.ozlabs.com/~rusty/ols-2003-keynote/img48.html

    Can you think of a simple way to improve things?

    Jörn

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