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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:40:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722124047.GL4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=0NWediExGCwJ3R-O+7V_9sgGzJPUaXgaTEka5O05N=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:15:14PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > [1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012152.html
> 
> ... and the patches were rejected.  Lennart says that UML providing
> /dev/tty* is wrong, and that UML should call them /dev/hvc* (or
> something).  Can we do something about the situation?  Can we remove
> /dev/tty*, and provide /dev/hvc*?  Will we be breaking existing users?

Yes, you would be breaking existing users.  Starting with anybody with static
/dev.  Or a debian userland, for that matter.  Any systemd-free setup,
actually.

Changing device number assignments is not to be done lightly, whether
they should've been set that way back then or not.

As for Lennart's opinion...  *shrug*  He's free to do whatever he wants
in systemd.  It does not translate into having any kind of control over
the kernel.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19 18:20 [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 18:44 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-19 19:44   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22  9:45     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 10:38       ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 10:43         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 11:48           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 22:32           ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-23  5:40             ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-23  5:47               ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-07-23  7:57                 ` Al Viro
2013-07-24 16:49                   ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-24 16:38               ` Lennart Poettering
2013-07-22 12:40       ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-07-22 13:02         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 13:20           ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 13:42             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 14:08               ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 15:33                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-22 19:29                   ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-22 20:01                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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