Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: multiplexing /dev/console to all console= entries | From | Dusty Mabe <> | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2018 16:34:05 -0500 |
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On 11/7/18 4:03 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 05. 11. 18, 2:45, Dusty Mabe wrote: >> If a patch were submitted to enable this type of behavior would such a >> patch be acceptable? Maybe it could be a compile time option and also >> have a kernel arg option to enable/disable it. > > Hi, > > it might kill the system on some setups where people specify more serial > (or similarly slow consoles). Output to some console is so slow that the > system does nothing else than writing to the consoles. What might work > as the first step to check it out is adding a flag to the console= > option which would mark a console as a /dev/console device too and > multiplex only those specified by the user. Then let's see how it goes > with userspace logging out in the wild... >
Thanks Jiri!
I think that seems reasonable. Do you have a good idea of what you'd like it to look like? Some options
- console=ttyS0,primary - console=ttyS0,mux - console=ttyS0+ - consolex=ttyS0
These are ideas. Bad ones, probably. But just throwing out ideas.
Dusty
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