From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:36:05 -0700 Received: from u-22.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.19.22]:37125 "EHLO u-22.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:35:30 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:13:57 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:13:57 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: "Gleb O. Raiko" , Ralf Baechle , Harald Koerfgen , Craig P Prescott , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: BREAK and magic SysRq handling for Z8530 Message-ID: <20000809181357.B10906@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <39911193.672C7E59@niisi.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:38:37AM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:38:37AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > It's actually the reverse. ;-) Without these (oh well, sunkbd.c is for > completeness, indeed) you cannot compile-in the magic SysRq support if you > do not include the virtual terminal driver. This is an unnecessary > limitation -- I don't want the VT (well, actually I would, if I had a > driver for my console, but I haven't, yet). > > Such changes actually went into the Linus' 2.4.0-test6-pre* (but not mine > -- someone overtook me, and he also missed one bit ;-) ). That probably where Prumpf's changes; I recently discussed various problem with SysRq with him. I guess he only tried to fix the HP part of the problem. Ralf