Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:47:05 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
        Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
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> Currently the bootlogd(8) or blogd(8) parse the kernels command line
> and if available do an ioctl TIOCGDEV (not supported by the upstream
> kernel), then create a pty/tty pair, do an ioctl TIOCCONS to forward

So perhaps the vendors using TIOCGDEV could get off their collective
backsides and submit it upstream ?

Alan
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