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| author |   Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> | 2021-01-15 08:49:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> | 2021-01-15 08:49:57 +0200 |
| commit | d263dfa7d2697a43f3299b9731cd568ee49cdd2c (patch) | |
| tree | f5d993c7000ac41ee926acf0b357ec572ef7908f /drivers/tty/ttynull.c | |
| parent | drm/i915/gt: Prune inlines (diff) | |
| parent | Merge tag 'drm-intel-gt-next-2021-01-14' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-next (diff) | |
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Backmerging to get a common base for merging topic branches between
drm-intel-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/ttynull.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/ttynull.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/ttynull.c b/drivers/tty/ttynull.c index 17f05b7eb6d3..eced70ec54e1 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/ttynull.c +++ b/drivers/tty/ttynull.c @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ /* * Copyright (C) 2019 Axis Communications AB * + * The console is useful for userspace applications which expect a console + * device to work without modifications even when no console is available + * or desired. + * + * In order to use this driver, you should redirect the console to this + * TTY, or boot the kernel with console=ttynull. + * * Based on ttyprintk.c: * Copyright (C) 2010 Samo Pogacnik */ @@ -59,6 +66,17 @@ static struct console ttynull_console = { .device = ttynull_device, }; +void __init register_ttynull_console(void) +{ + if (!ttynull_driver) + return; + + if (add_preferred_console(ttynull_console.name, 0, NULL)) + return; + + register_console(&ttynull_console); +} + static int __init ttynull_init(void) { struct tty_driver *driver; |