busybox-1.1.3-getty-nobaud.patch

Stuart Hughes stuarth at freescale.com
Mon Aug 14 07:56:06 UTC 2006


Hi Rob,

That would definitely be a better way of handling it.  I did it that way
as it was the clearest (but not the most efficient).

Regards, Stuart

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 00:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 11:16 am, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > I don't know if this will get into the mainline, but it may be useful to
> > someone.
> > 
> > This patch is a bit of a hack that allows the specification
> > in /etc/inittab of '0' as the baud rate.  If this is given, then the
> > current setting is used.  I use this so I can have a generic entry
> > in /etc/inittab that will work for all target boards I use.  The 
> > entry I have in inittab is:
> > 
> > ::respawn:/sbin/getty console 0 vt100
> > 
> > Regards, Stuart
> 
> I like the idea of "0" meaning "leave it alone", but from a size standpoint 
> I'd prefer the test chops out the actual attempt to fiddle with it rather 
> than querying the current value to feed back in again.
> 
> I can probably do that part myself, but who knows _when_. :)  (todo item 
> added, for what that's worth...)
> 
> Rob




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