Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[Steffen S. <s.s...@ph...>]

James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > Yuck. I want to have all my video cards and keybaords boot up as fully
> > > functional consoles. Their are problems with con2fb. The biggest is no
> > > locking on  SMP machines. With seperate VT pools on each display then
> > > life will be much easier.
> >
> > You misunderstood me.  I was referring to the console that gets kernel
> > printk() output.  This really doesn't have anything to do with VTs.
> 
> Oops. It makes sense to do it this way. Any opinions here ?

As I wrote before, this is in my opinion the only reasonable soulution.
There should be exactly one console that gets the printk messages
if no klogd is running. If you want to have it on all consoles, run klogd
and syslogd and have them spread the word on all consoles.

			Steffen

PS: Think of what would happen in a multi-display environment if you 
would allow for any number of consoles getting printk() output from
the in-kernel console_printk driver. Multihead is difficult enough
so one should not complicate things more than neccessary.
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Steffen Seeger                              mailto:se...@ph...