Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:41:50 +0100 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device |
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:02:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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...
Uhmm ... just to say it: I've been asked by Fedorea people and also by Debian people why I had not submitted this patch and I've told them that I had it done long time ago ;)
It seems to me that there is some demand but most user space monitoring applications uses workarounds (AFAICR plymouth uses hard coded VT for boot and shutdown).
Werner
-- System V style init programs - http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/
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