Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk: Add consoles to a virtual "console" bus
From: Petr Mladek
Date: Fri Mar 08 2019 - 10:53:56 EST
On Fri 2019-03-01 16:48:19, Calvin Owens wrote:
> This patch embeds a device struct in the console struct, and registers
> them on a "console" bus so we can expose attributes in sysfs.
>
> Early console structures must still be static, since they're required
> before we're able to allocate memory. The least ugly way I can come up
> with to handle this is an "is_static" flag in the structure which makes
> the gets and puts NOPs, and is checked in ->release() to catch mistakes.
I wonder if it might get detected by is_kernel_inittext().
Best Regards,
Petr