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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:26:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21909.1274217979@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200." <0dd0991d71cac0a746891863264941c100bbc67a.1273825543.git.soren@linux2go.dk>

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On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200, Soren Hansen said:
> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
> and namespace.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK
> +#define HVC_MAJOR	4
> +#else /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
>  #define HVC_MAJOR	229
> +#endif /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
>  #define HVC_MINOR	0

Out of curiosity, what happens if you boot a kernel with this config hack
on a system that has real live "plain old ttys"?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 21:26 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
2010-05-18 21:26   ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
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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