Re: [PATCH, RFC, BAD IDEA] /proc/tty/console

[Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>]

Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) said: 
> > The attached patch adds /proc/tty/console. The contents of it are
> > simply a description of the current drivers attached to /dev/console.
> > For example, a boot with 'console=ttyS3,115200n1 console=tty0' would
> > yield:
> > 
> > # cat /proc/tty/console
> > unknown             /dev/tty0
> > serial              /dev/ttyS3
> 
> I must say that the what-consoles-are-registered problem makes my head spin
> sometimes too.  Seems a worthy objective.
> 
> However I think that a bunch of plain old printks which are emitted when a
> console is added or removed would suffice?

We already do that in register_console(), albeit without flags.

My concern is I'd like to easily programmatically do something with this
info - ideally it would be in sysfs so it can easily be used from udev
or something similar.

Bill