From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:27:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwEniFuQ7+dqXc5m@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgLzPq42K8w8M6u__p8fu-FbN6VwvhE3Vvu9n_Pb0kwUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:01:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > However, util-linux still resets it to ^O on any architecture,
> > ^O is the historical value, kernel ignores it anyway and finally,
> > Linus said "Just change everybody to do the same, nobody cares
> > about VDISCARD".
>
> Heh. Grepping for DISCARD_CHAR() shows that there literally doesn't
> seem to be any user.
>
> I guess some user space program could care what the initial value is,
> but it seems very unlikely.
Quite, especially since those programs would have to run before
getty gets a chance to reset the sucker to ^O...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-20 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-20 3:33 [RFC][PATCHES] termios.h cleanups Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] loongarch: remove generic-y += termios.h Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] termios: get rid of stray asm/termios.h include in n_hdlc.c Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] start unifying INIT_C_CC and termios convertors Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC Al Viro
2022-08-20 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-20 18:27 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] make generic INIT_C_CC a bit more generic Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] termios: convert the last (sparc) INIT_C_CC to array Al Viro
2022-08-20 3:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] termios: get rid of non-UAPI asm/termios.h Al Viro
2022-08-20 18:14 ` [RFC][PATCHES] termios.h cleanups Linus Torvalds
2022-08-20 18:43 ` Al Viro
2022-08-20 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-21 0:30 ` Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] loongarch: remove generic-y += termios.h Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] termios: get rid of stray asm/termios.h include in n_hdlc.c Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] termios: uninline conversion helpers Al Viro
2022-08-30 12:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-01 17:03 ` Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] " Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] termios: start unifying non-UAPI parts of asm/termios.h Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:07 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:07 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] make generic INIT_C_CC a bit more generic Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] termios: convert the last (sparc) INIT_C_CC to array Al Viro
2022-09-01 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] termios: get rid of non-UAPI asm/termios.h Al Viro
2022-09-02 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 7/6] termios: kill uapi termios.h that are identical to generic one Al Viro
2022-09-09 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] termios: uninline conversion helpers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] termios: start unifying non-UAPI parts of asm/termios.h Al Viro
2022-08-21 5:13 ` Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] make generic INIT_C_CC a bit more generic Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] termios: convert the last (sparc) INIT_C_CC to array Al Viro
2022-08-21 1:02 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] termios: get rid of non-UAPI asm/termios.h Al Viro
2022-08-21 14:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] loongarch: remove generic-y += termios.h Huacai Chen
2022-08-21 14:58 ` Huacai Chen
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