Re: [PATCH 0/7] Detaching fbcon

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > How is the stack maintained of what was previously bound to console?
>> > What if I unbind fbcon on a system that doesn't have VGAcon for a
>> backup?
>>
>> You could try actually reading the patches...
> 
> I was working on a patch for this but now I've lost interest.

How come? I never believed you're the type to lose interest so easily :-)

> 
> Detach should be an attribute off from /dev/console. /dev/console is
> using the standard device support and appears at
> /sys/class/tty/console so /sys/class/tty/console/detach can be added
> as an attribute. /sys/class/tty/console could have another attribute
> which lists the available drivers. One solution would be for the
> attribute to list the names of the available drivers that have
> registered with console and then copy one of those names back to the
> attribute to select where console is bound.
> 
> In my opinion attach/detach does not belong as an attribute on fbcon,
> it is part of /dev/console. The fact that fbcon has to ask console to
> unbind from it implies these attributes are in the wrong place.

Okay, you and Andrew persuaded me to change the location of the control.
I did say that if someone makes the necessary change to the vt layer that
it won't be a problem. The necessary infrastructure is already introduced
by this patch to make it work like what you and Andrew want. 

Tony