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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:26:28 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:
> > Make the default console cursor type configurable rather than
> > hard-coding it.
> 
> You can set the cursor type at runtime so this all seems unjustified and
> doing this kind of thing at build time is definitely the wrong place.

The justification from Daniel's original patch was:
| For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be
| annoying and unintended.

Would a simple "Disable cursor by default" switch more acceptable?


Clemens
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