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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.11 085/121] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Ray Strode <halfline@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This broke plymouth, i think. Plymouth used the herustic:
>> "/sys/class/tty/console/active contains something other than tty0" to
>> mean "probably has serial consoles, force verbose messages instead of
>> a splash screen". Now on a normal system it contains tty1.
>>
>> I pushed a commit to plymouth that gets it working again, but it could
>> cause compatiblity concerns if new kernels are pushed to old releases.
>
> Hm. Breaking userspace is probably a bad thing here.
>
> Greg, you have this queued for 3.13.5 at the moment. Maybe we should
> hold off on this one until this discussion is sorted out?

Looks like a broken patch, not a broken idea. So you should probably
hold off on this one till we figure it out. See Kay's comment on
Greg's series for more.

Thanks
David


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