Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752978AbZKMH2g (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752203AbZKMH2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:30 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:43588 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750788AbZKMH23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:29 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: /Xrar6/5SUAIKaBABvgf91mk9KljdicwT8A54a49XfGU 1258097314 Message-ID: <4AFD0AA2.7070205@ladisch.de> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:28:34 +0100 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton , Daniel Mack CC: Pavel Machek , David Newall , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable References: <4AF7D439.4030305@ladisch.de> <20091109091044.GX29442@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <4AF7DDC1.4090006@ladisch.de> <20091109095316.6283fbd6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4AF7FC64.6030904@ladisch.de> <20091109114600.4d91b90e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091109145056.GB14091@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <4AF8582B.2000403@davidnewall.com> <20091109220944.GH14091@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <20091110210940.GA1590@ucw.cz> <20091110152605.fc8e760e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4AFA603B.6000102@ladisch.de> <20091112140546.303e7dd6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20091112140546.303e7dd6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 26 Andrew Morton wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable > > > > Make the default console cursor type configurable rather than > > hard-coding it. > > The changelog omitted the most important piece of information: the > reason why we're making this change to the kernel. [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor shape. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch Cc: Daniel Mack Acked-by: Pavel Machek --- Daniel, could you ack this? -- 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/