From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Add a boot option to disable cursor on boot
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:15:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904161507.GA24697@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904180302.6561fabf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Seems odd to me - why can't the splash screen app in initrd just issue
> the call to turn off the cursor - or is this splash screen coming from
> something else ?
The kernel unconditionally enables the cursor before any userspace has
run, even if we've turned it off in the bootloader. That's the window
I'm trying to close.
> - If the splash screen is kernel based then the splash screen module
> needs to be able to ask the vt driver itself
> - If not then the user space can use ioctls like everyone else (see
> setterm)
(see above)
> - It should be implemented without adding an extra condition to a pile of
> ifs (or the condition mess at least become a single cursor_visible_p())
It doesn't add or alter any conditionals in its current form?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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2009-09-04 15:48 [PATCH] VT: Add a boot option to disable cursor on boot Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 17:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-04 16:15 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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