Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:54:10 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>, Ray Strode <halfline@gmail.com>,
        "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
        Ubuntu kernel team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
        Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
        Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.11 085/121] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:09:22PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Ray Strode <halfline@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This broke plymouth, i think.  Plymouth used the herustic:
> >> "/sys/class/tty/console/active contains something other than tty0" to
> >> mean "probably has serial consoles, force verbose messages instead of
> >> a splash screen".  Now on a normal system it contains tty1.
> >>
> >> I pushed a commit to plymouth that gets it working again, but it could
> >> cause compatiblity concerns if new kernels are pushed to old releases.
> >
> > Hm.  Breaking userspace is probably a bad thing here.
> >
> > Greg, you have this queued for 3.13.5 at the moment.  Maybe we should
> > hold off on this one until this discussion is sorted out?
> 
> Looks like a broken patch, not a broken idea. So you should probably
> hold off on this one till we figure it out. See Kay's comment on
> Greg's series for more.
> 
> Thanks
> David

I'll just drop this patch from the 3.11 kernel.  Thank you all!

Cheers,
--
Lu?s
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