> Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980816194907.12849B-100000@babylon.clifford.at>
> By author: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I have a little patch here to make the opening of the initial console more
> > flexible: It tries first to open /etc/console and after that /dev/console.
> > The reason for this oerder is that one does not have controll of
> > /dev/console if useing Richards devfs driver. Since /etc/console does not
> > exist on most systems it will still open /dev/console on default. But if
> > you use the devfs filesystem as /dev/ and you haven't enabled the "mount
> > at boot time" option there will be no /dev/console and one can use
> > /etc/console instead. On the other hand if you are using the "mount at
> > boot time" option and you are not happy with the normal /dev/console you
> > can override it useing /etc/console.
> >
>
> This is a broken patch for a broken problem. Please, don't put this
> kind of crud in the kernel.
>
> -hpa
I don't think so. It solves a problem at a very easy way and does not
hurt anyone. We support a few paths for the init program - why don't
be flexible with the path of /dev/console? (Specialy if there is a good
reason for: it's possible that /dev will be mounted later from a boot
script.)
- clifford
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