Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 19:05:34 EST


> No, it does cover that. You should be able to do that with a simple
> console redirection to /dev/kmsg What happened when you tried to do
> that?

stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

It's value is twofold

- formatting
- tty ioctls work as they should on a console (eg vhangup)

and its a tiny driver with no impact on the rest of the kernel - so to me
it seems useful in that form.

Alan
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