Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] hvc_console: Add tty window resizing | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:29 +1100 |
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On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:12:51 Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > From: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > The patch provides the hvc_resize() function to update the terminal > window dimensions (struct winsize) for a specified hvc console. > The function stores the new window size and schedules a function > that finally updates the tty winsize and signals the change to > user space (SIGWINCH). > Because the winsize update must acquire a mutex and might sleep, > the function is scheduled instead of being called from hvc_poll() > or khvcd.
I want this functionality for lguest, too. But I don't see anything which uses this call yet? Are we going to use the config_change notifier from virtio? (Which IIRC neither S/390 nor lguest have plumbed in).
Cheers, Rusty.
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