[PATCH] cttyhack: handle multiple consoles found from sysfs

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Sat Feb 4 14:20:33 UTC 2012


If multiple consoles are found from the sysfs file, cttyhack will fail:

	cttyhack: can't open '/dev/tty0 ttyS0': No such file or directory

In such cases take the last one as the kernel will use that one for
/dev/console.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
---
 shell/cttyhack.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/shell/cttyhack.c b/shell/cttyhack.c
index 6ff8674..b2614b5 100644
--- a/shell/cttyhack.c
+++ b/shell/cttyhack.c
@@ -128,10 +128,19 @@ int cttyhack_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 			int s = open_read_close("/sys/class/tty/console/active",
 				console + 5, sizeof(console) - 5);
 			if (s > 0) {
+				char *last;
 				/* found active console via sysfs (Linux 2.6.38+)
 				 * sysfs string looks like "ttyS0\n" so zap the newline:
 				 */
 				console[4 + s] = '\0';
+				/* if there are multiple consoles, take the last
+				 * one:
+				 */
+				last = strrchr(console + 5, ' ');
+				if (last != NULL)
+					memmove(console + 5,
+						last + 1,
+						s - (last - (console + 5)) - 1);
 				break;
 			}
 
-- 
1.7.2.5



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