From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:21:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF8094C.3040104@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091109114600.4d91b90e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
> > The justification from Daniel's original patch was:
> > | For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be
> > | annoying and unintended.
> >
> > Would a simple "Disable cursor by default" switch more acceptable?
>
> Well I guess you could just make the default cursor define a variable and
> mark it MODULE_PARAM ?
The original thread started here: <http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/71>.
To quote Andrea:
| There's no need to choose if we want the blinking cursor or not
| at each boot.
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 12:21 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
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 [this message]
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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