Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > > 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.


Okay so this settles this.