From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 06:24:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26755 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26723 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA22336; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:23:15 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA27443; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:23:15 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id PAA01228; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:12:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603091412.PAA01228@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Serial console? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:12:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: mdz@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603091123.VAA12952@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 9, 96 09:53:07 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > j@uriah 216% find /sys/i386 -name '*.c' | fgrep COMCONSOLE > > j@uriah 217% > > That's very good; there's no file called 'COMCONSOLE' in there. > Not really surprising 8) Ick. I forgot the `xargs'. :) > * $Id: sio.c,v 1.134 1996/01/25 07:21:36 phk Exp $ > /* initialize required fields */ > cp->cn_dev = makedev(CDEV_MAJOR, unit); > #ifdef COMCONSOLE > cp->cn_pri = CN_REMOTE; /* Force a serial port console */ > #else > cp->cn_pri = (boothowto & RB_SERIAL) ? CN_REMOTE : CN_NORMAL; > #endif > } > > ... now, I'm a little out of date here at home, but I was sure this still > did it. Has it been recently diked? Well, it should go away, i think. To the least, it might be renamed into ``FORCE_COMCONSOLE'', to make the purpose obvious. Bruce? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)