From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: make cursor display conditional
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:39:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106143916.GA30819@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF3DB6C.2070300@ladisch.de>
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:16:44AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Daniel Mack wrote:
> > For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be
> > annoying and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter
> > 'fbcon_disable_cursor' which disables it conditionally.
>
> Wouldn't it be more useful to change the CUR_DEFAULT symbol (see the
> end of <linux/console_struct.h>) into a kernel parameter, instead of
> adding a new flag?
Agreed. There's no need to choose if we want the blinking cursor or not
at each boot. Better to make this decision at compile time.
-Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 9:17 [PATCH] fbcon: make cursor display conditional Daniel Mack
2009-11-06 8:16 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-06 14:39 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2009-11-06 16:45 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 8:35 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:10 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 9:15 ` [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 11:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 12:21 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 14:50 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 17:58 ` David Newall
2009-11-09 18:07 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 22:09 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:05 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:30 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:36 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:39 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-11 6:56 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-11 7:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-12 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 7:28 ` Clemens Ladisch
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