From 57f0f512b273f60d52568b8c6b77e17f5636edc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:04:01 -0300
Subject: Initial import

---
 arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c

(limited to 'arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c')

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c b/arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d07a97f8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/stderr_console.c
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
+
+#include "chan_user.h"
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+/* trivial console driver -- simply dump everything to stderr                    */
+
+/*
+ * Don't register by default -- as this registers very early in the
+ * boot process it becomes the default console.
+ *
+ * Initialized at init time.
+ */
+static int use_stderr_console = 0;
+
+static void stderr_console_write(struct console *console, const char *string,
+				 unsigned len)
+{
+	generic_write(2 /* stderr */, string, len, NULL);
+}
+
+static struct console stderr_console = {
+	.name		= "stderr",
+	.write		= stderr_console_write,
+	.flags		= CON_PRINTBUFFER,
+};
+
+static int __init stderr_console_init(void)
+{
+	if (use_stderr_console)
+		register_console(&stderr_console);
+	return 0;
+}
+console_initcall(stderr_console_init);
+
+static int stderr_setup(char *str)
+{
+	if (!str)
+		return 0;
+	use_stderr_console = simple_strtoul(str,&str,0);
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("stderr=", stderr_setup);
+
+/* The previous behavior of not unregistering led to /dev/console being
+ * impossible to open.  My FC5 filesystem started having init die, and the
+ * system panicing because of this.  Unregistering causes the real
+ * console to become the default console, and /dev/console can then be
+ * opened.  Making this an initcall makes this happen late enough that
+ * there is no added value in dumping everything to stderr, and the
+ * normal console is good enough to show you all available output.
+ */
+static int __init unregister_stderr(void)
+{
+	unregister_console(&stderr_console);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__initcall(unregister_stderr);
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