Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754759Ab0H0AA2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:00:28 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:58825 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754660Ab0H0AAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:00:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:02:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Samo Pogacnik Cc: Alan Cox , Kay Sievers , linux kernel , linux-embedded Subject: Re: [PATCH] detour TTY driver - now ttyprintk Message-ID: <20100826230231.GA12060@suse.de> References: <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> <1282843484.2440.23.camel@itpsd6lap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282843484.2440.23.camel@itpsd6lap> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 31 On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:24:44PM +0200, Samo Pogacnik wrote: > 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. No, I can change it when I apply the patch next week (sorry, swamped at the moment.) thanks, greg k-h -- 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/