Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755069AbaBUUUB (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:20:01 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58103 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754985AbaBUUT7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:19:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:21:27 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Josh Boyer Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Lennart Poettering , Kay Sievers , Jiri Slaby , David Herrmann , Werner Fink , Hannes Reinecke , Ray Strode Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.13 35/99] tty: Set correct tty name in active sysfs attribute Message-ID: <20140221202127.GA28780@kroah.com> References: <20140220235118.191692546@linuxfoundation.org> <20140220235119.236520201@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > 3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Hannes Reinecke > > > > commit d8a5dc3033af2fd6d16030d2ee4fbd073460fe54 upstream. > > > > The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently active tty > > devices the console is running on, not the currently active console. > > > > The console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs, only the tty > > the console is running on has. So we need to print out the tty names in > > 'active', not the console names. > > > > This resolves an issue on s390 platforms in determining the correct > > console device to use. > > Just to be double sure this is seen, Ray points out that it breaks > current plymouth because the heuristic changed. Hold off on this one? Ray, Josh, can I get some more information about this? Is this broken in Linus's tree? Or did I get the backport wrong here? What is the value of the file before and after this patch? And what is plymouth doing with this file value, it was incorrect before, what was it using the value for? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/