From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: provide notifications on selection changes
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:09:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150124020942.GA3230@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1501231636200.1322@knanqh.ubzr>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The vcs device's poll/fasync support relies on the vt notifier to signal
> changes to the screen content. Notifier invocations were missing for
> changes that comes through the selection interface though. Fix that.
>
> Tested with BRLTTY 5.2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> Cc: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
>
> ---
>
> Greg: Would be highly convenient to have this patch applied to the
> stable tree as well to help affected blind Linux users via distro
> updates. Yet it took a while before this issue was discovered. Your
> call.
Ok, that sounds good, I'll queue this up for 3.20-rc1 and mark it for
stable so it will get backported.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2015-01-23 22:07 [PATCH] vt: provide notifications on selection changes Nicolas Pitre
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