Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:49 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Ray Strode <halfline@gmail.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
        David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
        Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Add sysfs symlink for console name->tty device
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:40:51AM -0500, 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.

What userspace code has been tested with this change?

> 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.

I don't understand, what does userspace now look like in sysfs?  Do we
need Documentation/ABI/ updates here?

And David has fixed up his original patch, which doesn't break plymouth,
and I'll be taking that, so I don't see why this patch is needed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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