Re: [PATCH] console: prevent registered consoles from dumping oldkernel message over again

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 19 2011 - 20:52:22 EST


On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:44:58 +0800
Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > How's about something like this?
>
> Yes, it makes sense, I should add some check. And this new
> "exclusive_console" should be better as its name shows what it is for.

Is it racy, or does console_sem coverage save us?

Anyway. If you think that the exclusive_console approach is suitable,
please send a tested patch back at me sometime?

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