On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > BTW, I find it a pity you cannot simply do `echo XXX > /dev/console' > > > instead... > > > > Adding console support should be as easy as throwing a register_console > > into the init_module function. > > natfeat does a register_console if you have debug on the kernel command > line. It doesn't seem to echo things sent to /dev/console, although the > aranym console does.
Printk() output appears on all registered and enabled (through console= or debug) consoles. /dev/console output appears on the last enabled console only. E.g. for `console=ttyS0 console=tty0', printk() output appears on both, while /dev/console == /dev/tty0. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html