[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] fs/common: Create initial console device

Markos Chandras markos.chandras at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 10:19:27 UTC 2012


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 11/05/12 10:44, Markos Chandras wrote:
>>
>> From: Markos Chandras<markos.chandras at imgtec.com>
>>
>> A /dev/console node must be present in rootfs when the Linux kernel
>> boots otherwise the kernel will print the following warning:
>> "Warning: unable to open an initial console"
>>
>> This is because when we use an initramfs the /dev directory is not
>> populated at this point. This can cause problems when a program
>> (e.g ldso with early debugging enabled) opens a standard file
>> descriptor for read/write before these descriptors are actually
>> created by the init process later on.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras<markos.chandras at imgtec.com>
>
>
> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
Hi Arnout,

Thanks. Lets see if this will make it to the final release as this
warning is a bit annoying :)

-- 
Regards,
Markos



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