Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 19:35:08 EST


> > - formatting
>
> Ick, we really want to format things from userspace here?

Depends what you are trying to do.

Put an embedded hat on

Do you want to be able to flip between a real debug interface and a
logging device on the same software set without risking changing behaviour

Do you want to load a 70K daemon and an initrd or burn about 1.5K on a
kernel interface ?

Alan
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