Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:49:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC, BAD IDEA] /proc/tty/console |
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:18:57 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> The attached patch adds /proc/tty/console. The contents of it are > simply a description of the current drivers attached to /dev/console. > For example, a boot with 'console=ttyS3,115200n1 console=tty0' would > yield: > > # cat /proc/tty/console > unknown /dev/tty0 > serial /dev/ttyS3
I must say that the what-consoles-are-registered problem makes my head spin sometimes too. Seems a worthy objective.
However I think that a bunch of plain old printks which are emitted when a console is added or removed would suffice?
We should display each console's CON_foo flags too.
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