> Would that work for this driver in use as a console? Yes > exec < /dev/console > /dev/kmsg 2>&1 > > That's one extra process, not that much, right? About 150K or so way too much and its not robust. > > You also want errors to get out (or stored) even if there are crashes - > > which the Fedora one is not very good at. To be fair in the Fedora world > > its not a big deal to say 'Oh dear, boot with ....'. Embedded isn't the > > same, and you want to capture the odd rare error reliably. > > again, the above exec line should work for what the embedded people > want, right? We didn't *need* devtmpfs either - that was a little bit of user space. It's a similar thing - you can do the job better in 1.5K of kernel code than 150K or more of user space - which is not trivial on a box with no swap. Alan -- 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
