Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754057Ab0KRBxX (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:53:23 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:41518 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753963Ab0KRBxW (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:53:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:53:10 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Lennart Poettering Cc: Alan Cox , Kay Sievers , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel , Werner Fink , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Message-ID: <20101118015310.GA30480@kroah.com> References: <20101116195538.7fa66b97@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101116213622.GA17824@tango.0pointer.de> <20101116225619.5fa7ef8b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101116231023.GB27594@tango.0pointer.de> <25482.1290031268@localhost> <20101117235647.00766e32@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101118012734.GA8558@kroah.com> <20101118014848.GA7873@tango.0pointer.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101118014848.GA7873@tango.0pointer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1152 Lines: 32 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:48:48AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 17.11.10 17:27, Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > > > I can do any one, or multiple things from the following options: > > > > - disable the existing ioctl to return an error so that no new > > userspace program starts to use it thinking it is valid > > - accept Werner's patch for those who like proc files > > - accept Kay's patch > > > > Any suggestions? > > Maybe this is not so surprising, but I definitely want item #3 from the > list. > > I am against #2, since #1 is a much nicer solution, and having both > would be needlessly redundant. I think you mean s/1/3/ here, right? And yes, having both will be redundant, and Werner seems to not be responding anymore as to why he feels his patch is somehow still needed given that Kay's patch accomplishes the same thing from what I can tell. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/