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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lpoetter@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:38:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ED0BBF.7060502@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=0NWediExGCwJ3R-O+7V_9sgGzJPUaXgaTEka5O05N=Q@mail.gmail.com>

CC'ing Lennart.

Am 22.07.2013 11:45, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> [1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012152.html
> 
> ... and the patches were rejected.  Lennart says that UML providing
> /dev/tty* is wrong, and that UML should call them /dev/hvc* (or
> something).  Can we do something about the situation?  Can we remove
> /dev/tty*, and provide /dev/hvc*?  Will we be breaking existing users?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> UML shouldn't be penalized for not implementing some terminal emulation,
>> but it should be penalized for doing so under the label of "VT support",
>> which it simply is not providing.
>>
>> They can call their ttys any way they want. If the call them
>> /dev/tty[1..64] however, then they need to implement the VC
>> interfaces. All of them.

Lennart, can you please explain us why /dev/tty[1..64] is forced to
have virtual console support?

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19 18:20 [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 18:44 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-19 19:44   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22  9:45     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 10:38       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2013-07-22 10:43         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 11:48           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 22:32           ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-23  5:40             ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-23  5:47               ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-07-23  7:57                 ` Al Viro
2013-07-24 16:49                   ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-24 16:38               ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-22 12:40       ` Al Viro
2013-07-22 13:02         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 13:20           ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 13:42             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 14:08               ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 15:33                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 19:29                   ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 20:01                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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