linux-kernel - Re: Support for netconsole as default tty/console?

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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:33:31 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Struan Bartlett <struan.bartlett@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Support for netconsole as default tty/console?

On Monday 31 of March 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:54:24 +0100
> 
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > Struan Bartlett <struan.bartlett@...il.com> writes:
> > > Adding console=netconsole to the command line does not appear to have
> > > the desired effect. I am not sure if this is because netconsole,
> > > unlike the serial console, does not provide a tty. Can anyone advise
> > > if this understanding is correct? If so, is there an independent
> > > solution to this problem?
> > 
> > It should not be hard to add a tty driver to netconsole, there are many
> > examples to borrow from.
> 
> Samo Pogacnik added a generic solution a few years ago. The ttyprintk
> driver provides you with a tty/console whose 'hardware' is printk and
> thus whatever system log device you are using.

Is there a way to get two devices working as console? For example I would like 
to have console on tty0 and on netconsole at the same time. Right now only 
one, last console gets all userspace messages.

> Alan

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl
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