Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752775AbaB0LNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:13:33 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:49670 "EHLO mail-wi0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbaB0LNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:13:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1393425651-7374-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1393425651-7374-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:13:09 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Add sysfs symlink for console name->tty device To: Peter Hurley Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , LKML , Ray Strode , David Herrmann , Lennart Poettering , Werner Fink Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > Enable a user-space process to discover the underlying tty device > for a console, if one exists, and when the tty device is later > created or destroyed. > > Add sysfs symlinks for registered consoles to their respective > devices in [sys/class,sys/devices/virtual]/tty/console. > Scan consoles at tty device (un)registration to handle deferred > console<->device (un)binding. What tool is supposed to read that? I can't think of anything interested in this, as soon as we have fixed the "active" console output. Thanks, Kay -- 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/