Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:12:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Flexible Console open (really little patch) |
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Dave Cinege wrote: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > > 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.) > > How about a console= line passed by the boot loader?
`console=' is already used to specify the real device to which the `magic' /dev/console points to.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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