From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753569AbbAXCJs (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:09:48 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43430 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbbAXCJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:09:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:09:42 +0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Mielke Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: provide notifications on selection changes Message-ID: <20150124020942.GA3230@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > The vcs device's poll/fasync support relies on the vt notifier to signal > changes to the screen content. Notifier invocations were missing for > changes that comes through the selection interface though. Fix that. > > Tested with BRLTTY 5.2. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre > Cc: Dave Mielke > > --- > > Greg: Would be highly convenient to have this patch applied to the > stable tree as well to help affected blind Linux users via distro > updates. Yet it took a while before this issue was discovered. Your > call. Ok, that sounds good, I'll queue this up for 3.20-rc1 and mark it for stable so it will get backported. thanks, greg k-h