Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756214Ab0KSSJZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:09:25 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:37833 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755607Ab0KSSJY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:09:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:02:58 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: "Dr. Werner Fink" , Lennart Poettering , Kay Sievers , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel , Randy Dunlap , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Message-ID: <20101119180258.GA6745@kroah.com> References: <20101118014848.GA7873@tango.0pointer.de> <20101118015310.GA30480@kroah.com> <20101118110020.GA13871@boole.suse.de> <20101118112335.434de53a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101118121256.GA19884@boole.suse.de> <20101118125822.16718289@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101118131420.GA23872@boole.suse.de> <20101118144123.5417ccbd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101119132145.GA22883@boole.suse.de> <20101119154705.7829487a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101119154705.7829487a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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: 989 Lines: 25 On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:47:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 ? Heh, that's what started this whole thing :) I objected to TIOCGDEV going in as it seemed that only suse needed it for their boot sequence, and no other distro did which implied that it really wasn't necessary. I'm still not convinced it is needed, and the many thousands of booting systems out there without it seem to confirm it... 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/