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From: Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:50:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100514165036.GA3802@linux2go.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100514174348.74b74821@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
>> and namespace.
> We've got a perfect good udev and symlink functionality to rename
> devices in userspace.

I agree in principle. The reason this really is necessary for us
(Rackspace) is that we have tons of customers running tons and tons of
these virtual machines, and we can't (well, of course we /could/, but
that'd be horrible) go around and change people's virtual machines to
accomodate changes we want to make on the hypervisor side.

> NAK.

Fair enough. I really just wanted to share it in case someone else would
find it useful.

-- 
Soren Hansen
System Architect, The Rackspace Cloud
Ubuntu Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-14 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-14 16:11 [PATCH 0/2] A couple of workarounds for Xen based VPS services Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:43   ` Alan Cox
2010-05-14 16:50     ` Soren Hansen [this message]
2010-05-18 21:26   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make the Xen block device prefix configurable Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:29   ` Randy Dunlap

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