Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752687Ab0HZRZE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:25:04 -0400 Received: from smtp-good-out-1.t-2.net ([84.255.208.43]:53212 "EHLO smtp-good-out-1.t-2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752248Ab0HZRZB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:25:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk From: Samo Pogacnik To: Greg KH Cc: Alan Cox , Kay Sievers , linux kernel , linux-embedded In-Reply-To: <20100825181647.GA22018@suse.de> References: <20100824225703.GA5913@suse.de> <20100825002221.68fc09a4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100824231241.GA6971@suse.de> <20100825005152.40ba2f12@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100825004134.GA28884@suse.de> <20100825110813.5f7d7ac8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100825155716.GB16284@suse.de> <20100825181108.1dcd0d80@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100825171045.GA19401@suse.de> <20100825191437.1df57c9d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100825181647.GA22018@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:24:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1282843484.2440.23.camel@itpsd6lap> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 26 On 25.08.2010 (sre) at 11:16 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:14:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > That's one extra process, not that much, right? > > > > > > > > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust. > > > > > > Fair enough. So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros > > > to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd? > > > > Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on. > > Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded. > > So should this be dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED then? > Should i resend the patch with CONFIG_EMBEDDED dependency enabled? I do not have any real objections to that, except that the driver operates the same way regardless of the (non-)embedded configuration. regards, Samo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/