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2013-05-20vt: delete unneeded function unregister_con_driverWang YanQing1-1/+0
Now there is no place use unregister_con_driver, and we can achieve unregister_con_driver's function with unregister_con_driver easily, so just delete it to reduce code size and duplication. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-20vt: delete unneeded functions register_con_driver|take_over_consoleWang YanQing1-2/+0
Now there is no place use register_con_driver|take_over_console, and we can achieve their function with do_register_con_driver| do_take_over_console easily, so just delete them to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-30early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical codeThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list] [paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-26Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull drm merge from Dave Airlie: "Highlights: - TI LCD controller KMS driver - TI OMAP KMS driver merged from staging - drop gma500 stub driver - the fbcon locking fixes - the vgacon dirty like zebra fix. - open firmware videomode and hdmi common code helpers - major locking rework for kms object handling - pageflip/cursor won't block on polling anymore! - fbcon helper and prime helper cleanups - i915: all over the map, haswell power well enhancements, valleyview macro horrors cleaned up, killing lots of legacy GTT code, - radeon: CS ioctl unification, deprecated UMS support, gpu reset rework, VM fixes - nouveau: reworked thermal code, external dp/tmds encoder support (anx9805), fences sleep instead of polling, - exynos: all over the driver fixes." Lovely conflict in radeon/evergreen_cs.c between commit de0babd60d8d ("drm/radeon: enforce use of radeon_get_ib_value when reading user cmd") and the new changes that modified that evergreen_dma_cs_parse() function. * 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (508 commits) drm/tilcdc: only build on arm drm/i915: Revert hdmi HDP pin checks drm/tegra: Add list of framebuffers to debugfs drm/tegra: Fix color expansion drm/tegra: Split DC_CMD_STATE_CONTROL register write drm/tegra: Implement page-flipping support drm/tegra: Implement VBLANK support drm/tegra: Implement .mode_set_base() drm/tegra: Add plane support drm/tegra: Remove bogus tegra_framebuffer structure drm: Add consistency check for page-flipping drm/radeon: Use generic HDMI infoframe helpers drm/tegra: Use generic HDMI infoframe helpers drm: Add EDID helper documentation drm: Add HDMI infoframe helpers video: Add generic HDMI infoframe helpers drm: Add some missing forward declarations drm: Move mode tables to drm_edid.c drm: Remove duplicate drm_mode_cea_vic() gma500: Fix n, m1 and m2 clock limits for sdvo and lvds ...
2013-02-08fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep messTakashi Iwai1-0/+1
I've still got lockdep warnings even after Alan's patch, and it seems that yet more band aids are required to paper over similar paths for unbind_con_driver() and unregister_con_driver(). After this hack, lockdep warnings are finally gone. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2013-02-08fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeoverAlan Cox1-0/+1
Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller already holds the locks. Make the fb layer lock in order. This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()] [airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2013-01-19tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTYJoe Millenbach1-0/+5
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway. bloat-o-meter output is below. The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than "depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies. bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk '$3 != "-"' as the list was very long. add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350) function old new delta chr_dev_init 166 170 +4 allow_signal 80 82 +2 static.__warned 143 142 -1 disallow_signal 63 62 -1 __set_special_pids 95 94 -1 unregister_console 126 121 -5 start_kernel 546 541 -5 register_console 593 588 -5 copy_from_user 45 40 -5 sys_setsid 128 120 -8 sys_vhangup 32 19 -13 do_exit 1543 1526 -17 bitmap_zero 60 40 -20 arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20 release_task 674 652 -22 static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48 Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-12tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.cArnd Bergmann1-2/+8
The con_debug_leave/con_debug_enter functions are stubbed out by defining them to (0), which causes harmless build warnings. Using proper inline functions is the normal way to deal with this. Without this patch, building the ARM bcm2835_defconfig results in: drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c: In function 'kgdboc_pre_exp_handler': drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:279:3: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c: In function 'kgdboc_post_exp_handler': drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:293:3: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-01-13module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)Rusty Russell1-1/+1
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-26console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock()Torben Hohn1-3/+3
The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex. As a result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex() This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make implications about the underlying lock. The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is inverted from try_acquire_console_sem() This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to a mutex. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-17tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console deviceKay Sievers1-1/+1
tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Userspace can query the actual virtual console, and the configured console devices behind /dev/tt0 and /dev/console. The last entry in the list of devices is the active device, analog to the console= kernel command line option. The attribute supports poll(), which is raised when the virtual console is changed or /dev/console is reconfigured. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> index 0000000..b138b66
2010-11-16console: move for_each_console to linux/console.hJiri Slaby1-0/+6
Move it out of printk.c so that we can use it all over the code. There are some potential users which will be converted to that macro in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-07console: Fix compilation regressionJason Wessel1-0/+5
A regression of building without CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE was introduced with commit b45cfba4e9005d64d419718e7ff7f7cab44c1994 (vt,console,kdb: implement atomic console enter/leave functions). ERROR: "con_debug_enter" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined! ERROR: "vc_cons" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined! ERROR: "fg_console" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined! ERROR: "con_debug_leave" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined! When there is no HW console the con_debug_enter and con_debug_leave functions should have no code. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-08-05vt,console,kdb: implement atomic console enter/leave functionsJesse Barnes1-0/+13
These functions allow the kernel debugger to save and restore the state of the system console. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-25vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"Kay Sievers1-2/+2
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless. A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m1.142s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.540s If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m0.152s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.072s Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-12-29DRM: add mode setting supportDave Airlie1-0/+4
Add mode setting support to the DRM layer. This is a fairly big chunk of work that allows DRM drivers to provide full output control and configuration capabilities to userspace. It was motivated by several factors: - the fb layer's APIs aren't suited for anything but simple configurations - coordination between the fb layer, DRM layer, and various userspace drivers is poor to non-existent (radeonfb excepted) - user level mode setting drivers makes displaying panic & oops messages more difficult - suspend/resume of graphics state is possible in many more configurations with kernel level support This commit just adds the core DRM part of the mode setting APIs. Driver specific commits using these new structure and APIs will follow. Co-authors: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@tungstengraphics.com> Contributors: Alan Hourihane <alanh@tungstengraphics.com>, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2008-05-27xen: Enable console tty by default in domU if it's not a dummyMarkus Armbruster1-0/+2
Without console= arguments on the kernel command line, the first console to register becomes enabled and the preferred console (the one behind /dev/console). This is normally tty (assuming CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is enabled, which it commonly is). This is okay as long tty is a useful console. But unless we have the PV framebuffer, and it is enabled for this domain, tty0 in domU is merely a dummy. In that case, we want the preferred console to be the Xen console hvc0, and we want it without having to fiddle with the kernel command line. Commit b8c2d3dfbc117dff26058fbac316b8acfc2cb5f7 did that for us. Since we now have the PV framebuffer, we want to enable and prefer tty again, but only when PVFB is enabled. But even then we still want to enable the Xen console as well. Problem: when tty registers, we can't yet know whether the PVFB is enabled. By the time we can know (xenstore is up), the console setup game is over. Solution: enable console tty by default, but keep hvc as the preferred console. Change the preferred console to tty when PVFB probes successfully, unless we've been given console kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-30Basic braille screen reader supportSamuel Thibault1-0/+4
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time optionAndres Salomon1-5/+2
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes to sleep. This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC). There are plenty of times that we want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial console to be suspended. This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel boot parameter (no_console_suspend). By default, the serial console will be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing 'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain alive during suspend. For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be applied to make this work for things like netconsole. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspaceAntonino A. Daplas1-1/+2
Various console drivers are able to resize the screen via the con_resize() hook. This hook is also visible in userspace via the TIOCWINSZ, VT_RESIZE and VT_RESIZEX ioctl's. One particular utility, SVGATextMode, expects that con_resize() of the VGA console will always return success even if the resulting screen is not compatible with the hardware. However, this particular behavior of the VGA console, as reported in Kernel Bugzilla Bug 7513, can cause undefined behavior if the user starts with a console size larger than 80x25. To work around this problem, add an extra parameter to con_resize(). This parameter is ignored by drivers except for vgacon. If this parameter is non-zero, then the resize request came from a VT_RESIZE or VT_RESIZEX ioctl and vgacon will always return success. If this parameter is zero, vgacon will return -EINVAL if the requested size is not compatible with the hardware. The latter is the more correct behavior. With this change, SVGATextMode should still work correctly while in-kernel and stty resize calls can expect correct behavior from vgacon. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Remove unnecessary includes of spinlock.h under include/linuxRobert P. J. Day1-1/+0
Remove the obviously unnecessary includes of <linux/spinlock.h> under the include/linux/ directory, and fix the couple errors that are introduced as a result of that. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu1-0/+2
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08vt: add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributesJan Engelhardt1-1/+1
Add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributes as in OpenBSD/NetBSD-style (vt220) and xterm. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08enlarge console.nameAndrew Morton1-3/+2
console.name[] is eight chars, but so is "earlyvga". So when we try to print console->name when using earlyvga it runs off the end of the string. Make it bigger. Diagnosed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] drivers/char/vc_screen.c: proper prototypesAdrian Bunk1-0/+4
Add proper prototypes for two functions in drivers/char/vc_screen.c Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] vt: proper prototypes for some console functionsAdrian Bunk1-0/+3
This patch adds proper prototypes to header files for three console init functions used on drivers/char/vt.c Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] PM: make it possible to disable console suspendingRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+5
Change suspend_console() so that it waits for all consoles to flush the remaining messages and make it possible to switch the console suspending off with the help of a Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Add binding/unbinding support for the VT consoleAntonino A. Daplas1-1/+3
The framebuffer console is now able to dynamically bind and unbind from the VT console layer. Due to the way the VT console layer works, the drivers themselves decide when to bind or unbind. However, it was decided that binding must be controlled, not by the drivers themselves, but by the VT console layer. With this, dynamic binding is possible for all VT console drivers, not just fbcon. Thus, the VT console layer will impose the following to all VT console drivers: - all registered VT console drivers will be entered in a private list - drivers can register themselves to the VT console layer, but they cannot decide when to bind or unbind. (Exception: To maintain backwards compatibility, take_over_console() will automatically bind the driver after registration.) - drivers can remove themselves from the list by unregistering from the VT console layer. A prerequisite for unregistration is that the driver must not be bound. The following functions are new in the vt.c: register_con_driver() - public function, this function adds the VT console driver to an internal list maintained by the VT console bind_con_driver() - private function, it binds the driver to the console take_over_console() is changed to call register_con_driver() followed by a bind_con_driver(). This is the only time drivers can decide when to bind to the VT layer. This is to maintain backwards compatibility. unbind_con_driver() - private function, it unbinds the driver from its console. The vacated consoles will be taken over by the default boot console driver. unregister_con_driver() - public function, removes the driver from the internal list maintained by the VT console. It will only succeed if the driver is currently unbound. con_is_bound() checks if the driver is currently bound or not give_up_console() is just a wrapper to unregister_con_driver(). There are also 3 additional functions meant to be called only by the tty layer for sysfs control: vt_bind() - calls bind_con_driver() vt_unbind() - calls unbind_con_driver() vt_show_drivers() - shows the list of registered drivers Most VT console drivers will continue to work as is, but might have problems when unbinding or binding which should be fixable with minimal changes. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Make printk work for really early debuggingMichael Ellerman1-0/+1
Currently printk is no use for early debugging because it refuses to actually print anything to the console unless cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) is true. The stated explanation is that console drivers may require per-cpu resources, or otherwise barf, because the system is not yet setup correctly. Fair enough. However some console drivers might be quite happy running early during boot, in fact we have one, and so it'd be nice if printk understood that. So I added a flag (which I would have called CON_BOOT, but that's taken) called CON_ANYTIME, which indicates that a console is happy to be called anytime, even if the cpu is not yet online. Tested on a Power 5 machine, with both a CON_ANYTIME driver and a bogus console driver that BUG()s if called while offline. No problems AFAICT. Built for i386 UP & SMP. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-20Add support for suspending and resuming the whole console subsystemLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Trying to suspend/resume with console messages flying all around is doomed to failure, when the devices that the messages are trying to go to are being shut down. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+133
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!