Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk

[Samo Pogacnik]

On 25.08.2010 (sre) at 11:16 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> 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?
> 

Should i resend the patch with CONFIG_EMBEDDED dependency enabled? I do
not have any real objections to that, except that the driver operates
the same way regardless of the (non-)embedded configuration.

regards, Samo

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