On Tuesday 2013-09-10 17:41, Lennart Poettering wrote: >On Wed, 28.08.13 13:12, Michael Marineau (michael.marin...@coreos.com) wrote: > >> This enables a getty on active kernel consoles even when they are not >> the last one specified on the kernel command line and mapped to >> /dev/console. Now the order "console=ttyS0 console=tty0" works in >> addition to "console=tty0 console=ttyS0". > >The kernel already makes a distinction between the >primary console, and all others (the latter only receive logs, but you >cannot read from them via /dev/console iirc), and so we propagated that >distinction into systemd, too. > >I can totally see that this is confusing though, as nobody remembers the >right ordering...
Though console= just follows the standard principle of "later values override earlier ones", if nobody can remember the ordering, perhaps the kernel should be taught a suboption to explicitly specify the primary console. Think console.primary=ttyS0 console=tty0 console=tty0 console.primary=ttyS0 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
