From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:08:34 -0500 Message-ID: <54BEA7B2.2060708@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1421616632-4077-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <54BC3771.7030204@symas.com> <54BC5EC7.1090202@hurleysoftware.com> <54BCFC94.1040605@symas.com> <54BD1B53.9030901@hurleysoftware.com> <54BD328F.9090208@symas.com> <54BD567C.8070200@hurleysoftware.com> <54BD5E54.3050909@symas.com> <54BE9840.8080808@hurleysoftware.com> <54BEA0E0.9080807@symas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54BEA0E0.9080807@symas.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Howard Chu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , One Thousand Gnomes , Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2015 01:39 PM, Howard Chu wrote: > Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 01/19/2015 02:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote: [...] >> So it's really back to the question of, does allowing EXTPROC for regular >> ttys have _value_? > > Does preventing it have value? Not that that is the appropriate metric for kernel behavior, but yes, preventing it has value: it significantly limits the matrix required for testing. > I like having the option of turning linemode on and off in a session, for debugging purposes if nothing else. ... which is just as achievable with a pty-specific ioctl. Regards, Peter Hurley