From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759498AbYJMQC1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:02:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758928AbYJMQCK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:02:10 -0400 Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.58]:58170 "EHLO edna.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758849AbYJMQCI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:02:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:02:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Prabhu Chawandi cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initial Console In-Reply-To: <241b8f7b0810130520g1f8a2573v3261e24218546b75@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <241b8f7b0810130520g1f8a2573v3261e24218546b75@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Prabhu Chawandi wrote: > Initial console /dev/console in the kernel is directed to /dev/ttyS0, Depends... > Any bosy is having info, where exavtly in which file has been done so.. drivers/char/tty_io.c, look for `TTYAUX_MAJOR, 1'. > if not what exactly is happening to initialize console to ttyS0. ... depends on the list of available console devices, and the `console=' kernel command line parameter. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds