Re: [PATCH] Console: fall back to /dev/null when no console isavaillable

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:18:51AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > What about letting the kernel open the console without going through
> > /dev/console? Since the kernel knows /dev/console is the device with major 5
> > minor 1, why can't it just open (5, 1)? Then we don't need a /dev/console node,
> > and things will never break.
> 
> Famous last words.  What about the case where you don't have a console
> device registered (eg in the case of an embedded device) ?  Currently,
> opening /dev/console fails in that circumstance.

Why didn't you quote the next line I wrote?

| Same for /dev/null as a fallback.

which answers your question :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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