From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751021AbWFFTpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:45:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751027AbWFFTpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:45:36 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:1505 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021AbWFFTpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:45:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Qc+li9RNLuDfiggQDhl8WnR/E0OzsdDT/1dOyoBmtMcSLYIWaaj2dnuCNRgDyctnb35Iw9/6A/TMerFbR92R1FaH83HAjTU/uWNSiXmHcxpczjQqs4pHExSjmDECFuHtriE51BUDFKhZX52XZOt1QcCtHlXOgmn30K7go7XyCDY= Message-ID: <4485DB56.7020004@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:45:26 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Detaching fbcon References: <44856223.9010606@gmail.com> <9e4733910606060910m44cd4edfs8155c1fe031b37fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606060910m44cd4edfs8155c1fe031b37fe@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/6/06, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> Overall, this feature is a great help for developers working in the >> framebuffer or console layer. There is not need to continually reboot >> the >> kernel for every small change. It is also useful for regular users who >> wants >> to choose between a graphical console or a text console without having to >> reboot. > > Instead of the sysfs attribute, what about creating a new escape > sequence that you send to the console system to detach? Doing it that > way would make more sense from a stacking order. It just seems > backwards to me that you ask a lower layer to detach from the layer > above it. It is not the vt layer that attaches fbcon, it's fbcon that attaches to the vt layer. So it is more logical that fbcon detaches itself, not the other way around. Tony