On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:16:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Why does this need to be a tty driver? Why not a misc device? > > So you can use it as a"console" (in the user space sense) tty device on > embedded devices which don't have a meaningful normal output subsystem. But can't you do that today with kmsg? The startup of systemd does this in a way that handles all of the log messages very nicely, and the embedded people are sure to pick it up as well because of the simplicity. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html