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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move MAX_NR_CONSOLES from tty.h to vt.h
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:15:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A30D9D.5060804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606271203w4ceb6216g92f5fefee654aaf3@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:
> MAX_NR_CONSOLES is more of a function of the VT layer than the TTY
> one. Moving this to vt.h allows all of the framebuffer drivers to
> remove their dependency on tty.h. Note that console drivers in
> video/console still depend on tty.h but fbdev drivers should not
> depend on the tty layer.

In fact, none of the VT console drivers should have any dependency
on tty.h, only vt.c should.

I think, the only thing needed by fbcon (and all other drivers in
drivers/video/console) in tty.h is fg_console. We can move that
to vt_kern.h instead.

Tony 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-28 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27 19:03 [PATCH] move MAX_NR_CONSOLES from tty.h to vt.h Jon Smirl
2006-06-27 19:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-28 23:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-06-28 23:39   ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-28 23:45     ` Antonino A. Daplas

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