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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index 3eff516f628..ce2ba83a485 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst @@ -7625,22 +7625,9 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. SERIAL_CONSOLES = "115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyS1" - :term:`SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK` - Specifies serial consoles, which must be listed in - :term:`SERIAL_CONSOLES`, to check against - ``/proc/console`` before enabling them using getty. This variable - allows aliasing in the format: <device>:<alias>. If a device was - listed as "sclp_line0" in ``/dev/`` and "ttyS0" was listed in - ``/proc/console``, you would do the following:: - - SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK = "slcp_line0:ttyS0" - - This variable is currently only supported with SysVinit (i.e. not - with systemd). Note that :term:`SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK` also requires - ``/etc/inittab`` to be writable when used with SysVinit. This makes it - incompatible with customizations such as the following:: - - EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "read-only-rootfs" + Devices which don't exist will not cause "getty respawning too fast" + errors as the device node is checked to exist first, so + :term:`SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK` is no longer needed. :term:`SETUPTOOLS_BUILD_ARGS` When used by recipes that inherit the :ref:`ref-classes-setuptools3` |