Bug#814540: Please enable TTY_PRINTK as module for debug

[Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 18:11 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> I supposed this debugging feature is mainly for embedded or VM, so
>> module is more flexible.
>> You can include this module when MODULES=most in initramfs-tools, and
>> load this module together with netconsole.
>> If netconsole kmod is not loaded or in other limited special cases,
>> IMHO TTY_PRINTK is not so useful.
>
> I was thinking that we could use it to print to the console and also
> ensure that output goes into the system log later.  But, having taken a
> closer look at what ttyprintk does, I think you're right and we
> couldn't use it by default.

Thanks for guiding me.
I pushed this change to alioth.

Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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