Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 25 2010 - 14:19:47 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:14:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > That's one extra process, not that much, right?
> > >
> > > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust.
> >
> > Fair enough. So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros
> > to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd?
>
> Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on.
> Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded.

So should this be dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED then?

thanks,

greg k-h
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