Re: [PATCH] s390/sclp_vt220: Fix console name to match device

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 01:25:25 EST



On 19.05.20 20:16, Valentin Vidic wrote:
> Console name reported in /proc/consoles:
>
> ttyS1 -W- (EC p ) 4:65
>
> does not match device name:
>
> crw--w---- 1 root root 4, 65 May 17 12:18 /dev/ttysclp0
>
> so debian-installer gets confused and fails to start.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Vidic <vvidic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is not as simple. ttyS1 is the the console name and ttysclp0 is the tty name.
This has mostly historic reasons and it obviously causes problems.
But there is documentation out that that actually describes the use of
console=ttyS1 console=ttyS0.
to have console output on both sclp consoles and there are probably scripts
using ttyS1.

I am wondering. The tty for ttyS0 is named sclp_line0. Does this work in LPAR?


> ---
> drivers/s390/char/sclp_vt220.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_vt220.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_vt220.c
> index 3f9a6ef650fa..3c2ed6d01387 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_vt220.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_vt220.c
> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
> #define SCLP_VT220_MINOR 65
> #define SCLP_VT220_DRIVER_NAME "sclp_vt220"
> #define SCLP_VT220_DEVICE_NAME "ttysclp"
> -#define SCLP_VT220_CONSOLE_NAME "ttyS"
> -#define SCLP_VT220_CONSOLE_INDEX 1 /* console=ttyS1 */
> +#define SCLP_VT220_CONSOLE_NAME "ttysclp"
> +#define SCLP_VT220_CONSOLE_INDEX 0 /* console=ttysclp0 */
>
> /* Representation of a single write request */
> struct sclp_vt220_request {
>