Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

John Stoffel wrote:
> 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?

No.  If you explicitly specify the console on the kernel command line
you get what you ask for, no matter whenever you apply the patch or not.

With the args above /dev/console is linked to /dev/ttyS1, which might
make gpm fail.  Would be a gpm bug though.

cheers,
  Gerd

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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
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