From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:25:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20090422082547.GB31246@shareable.org> References: <20090420234006.GA1958@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090421064346.GB8020@elte.hu> <200904210013.48551.david-b@pacbell.net> <1240333871.3632.70.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Woodhouse , David Brownell , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ingo Molnar , David VomLehn , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Actually, looking closer we should not use that particular name: we > already have something called a "console_driver" which is really the > "current VT" driver. Speaking of names... The word "console" is used to mean three different things in the kernel. Last time I had to understand the console code (because it wasn't showing on some device) that didn't help. But it was a 2.4 kernel 2 years ago so I didn't submit a patch :-) It would be a sensible though boring cleanup to change all the "VC" (virtual console) stuff to use the name "VT" (virtual terminal) consistently. -- Jamie