Re: Flexible Console open (really little patch)

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:12:25 +0200 (CEST)

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

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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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