On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:07:47PM +0100, Klaus Naumann wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > However, /dev/console must _not_ be a symlink, but a character special device
> > with major 5 minor 1 (cfr. Documentation/devices.txt).
>
> Unless you're using Linux/MIPS :)
> The console implementation is horrible broken, so
> this means that under most circumstances the 5,1 device doesn't
> work. So the only option is to make /dev/console a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.
This has nothing to do with "Linux/Mips" and is definitly not true
on all subarchs. It might be true on SGI machines but i dont even
there its necessary.
Flo
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Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
