Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:06 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > Create a variable, default_utf8, that defines the system-wide default UTF-8
> > setting.  This variable can be altered via sysfs. If the variable is properly
> > set, this should mimimize breakage of UTF-8 encoded consoles when doing a
> > reset or echo -e '\033c' and of newly opened/allocated consoles.
> > 
> > This is based from patches by Jan Engelhardt and Paul LeoNerd Evans.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >> I think you're missing the whole point of console reset.  Its purpose is 
> >> to force the console into a known-good state.  The fewer pieces of state 
> >> it leaves unset, the better.  To some degree it's less important what 
> >> that state actually is.
> > 
> > Okay, you convinced me. Hopefully this is acceptable to all parties.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > If everybody agrees, can you drop the previous patch I sent to you, and use
> > this instead?
> > 
> > Tony
> > +static int default_utf8;
> > +module_param(default_utf8, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> 
> Module parameter without description and documentation? Yes, I understand 
> that it is impossible to make vt a module. How about adding a line to 
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt?

I'll do that (and I'll also include Jan's palette patch) once I'm sure
there's no violent objection against the change.

Tony