Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:50:24 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Subject: Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?)
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:32:42 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> Am 07.06.2012 18:37, schrieb Alan Cox:
> > Yes I know exactly what is going on. However getting a more tolerant
> > behaviour is going to take a couple more kernels.
> > 
> 
> So, then please tell me what's the proper way to fix the UML console
> driver?
> 
> - tty_port plus ->hangup() works only with a patched util-linux
> - tty_port without ->hangup() seems to work only if *getty does not
> call vhangup()

There isn't a nice one. It'll have to wait until 3.6/7 or so to get
fixed nicely and it won't backport either.

Alan
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