From 582c88fdb55e01f3814e9c09a860651ed51a659d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Crispin Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 20:20:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bind the console to /dev/null if the real console fails to come up this was reported on irc by oc80z Signed-off-by: John Crispin --- early.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/early.c b/early.c index e86e4dd..7da1e4b 100644 --- a/early.c +++ b/early.c @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static void early_mounts(void) static void early_dev(void) { mkdev("*", 0600); + mknod("/dev/null", 0666, makedev(1, 3)); } static void early_console(const char *dev) @@ -55,10 +56,8 @@ static void early_console(const char *dev) } dd = open(dev, O_RDWR); - if (dd < 0) { - ERROR("Failed to open %s\n", dev); - return; - } + if (dd < 0) + dd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); dup2(dd, STDIN_FILENO); dup2(dd, STDOUT_FILENO); -- 2.11.0