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SubjectRe: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:57:50PM +0200, Samo Pogacnik wrote:
> On 25.06.2010 (Fri) at 12:03 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:
> > With my devices.txt owner hat on I'll allocate the minor as you suggest
> > (and double check this causes no problems), with my tty hat on can you
> > send it to GregKH for merging into the tree.
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope that this TTY driver is ok for merging. It is very basic -
> removed all flow control and rate limiting. Patch has been generated
> against 2.6.34 kernel version.
>
> Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk messages,
> via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store "console" messages
> inline with kernel messages for better analyses of the boot process, for
> example.

Why does this need to be a tty driver? Why not a misc device?

And what about the normal way of just writing to /dev/kmsg to do this?
Why a whole new driver for this same functionality?

confused,

greg k-h


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