Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756422AbZDVKku (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:40:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754400AbZDVKkh (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:40:37 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:56627 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753284AbZDVKkg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:40:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:39:53 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , David Brownell , Ingo Molnar , David VomLehn , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 Message-ID: <20090422103953.GB2196@shareable.org> References: <20090420234006.GA1958@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090421064346.GB8020@elte.hu> <200904210013.48551.david-b@pacbell.net> <1240333871.3632.70.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090422082547.GB31246@shareable.org> <20090422101109.7beee3ee@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090422101109.7beee3ee@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 17 Alan Cox wrote: > > It would be a sensible though boring cleanup to change all the "VC" > > (virtual console) stuff to use the name "VT" (virtual terminal) > > consistently. > > Then we would have two completely different meanings for virtual terminal > in the kernel. As opposed to three meanings for console - causing a bit of confusion you had to point out to Linus earlier :-) -- Jamie -- 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/