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From: John Stoffel
Subject: Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 1:58 pm

Gerd> The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console,
Gerd> using the CON_BOOT flag.  The implementation has some flaws
Gerd> though.  The major problem is that presence of a boot console
Gerd> makes register_console() ignore any other console devices
Gerd> (unless explicitly specified on the kernel command line).

Would this explain why recent version of GDM don't find the keyboard
properly when you boot with a kernel command line of:

   kernel ... console=tty0 console=ttyS1,96008N1

until you stop and restart GDM?  This was filed under Debian bug
#406457 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457)
and I could never figure it out until I removed my serial console line
at one point.  

I'll have to try this patch out and let you and the GDM 2.16.x
developers know what happens.

John
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[patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot con ..., Gerd Hoffmann, (Thu Mar 15, 8:46 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., John Stoffel, (Thu Mar 15, 1:58 pm)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Gerd Hoffmann, (Fri Mar 16, 1:10 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Olaf Dabrunz, (Thu Mar 29, 9:37 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., John Stoffel, (Tue Apr 3, 8:42 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Olaf Dabrunz, (Wed Apr 11, 11:33 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 23, 11:42 pm)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Gerd Hoffmann, (Tue Apr 24, 7:04 am)
Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot ..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Apr 24, 10:27 am)