From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751326AbXCOVFi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:05:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751648AbXCOVFi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:05:38 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:33201 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642AbXCOVFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:05:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17913.45970.178029.519745@smtp.charter.net> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:58:58 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Paul Mundt , Ralf Baechle , Andi Kleen , Alan Cox , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Paul Mackerras , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console. In-Reply-To: <20070315154638.944768000@suse.de> References: <20070315154638.944768000@suse.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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