From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:28:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFD0AA2.7070205@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091112140546.303e7dd6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:
> > [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
> >
> > Make the default console cursor type configurable rather than
> > hard-coding it.
>
> The changelog omitted the most important piece of information: the
> reason why we're making this change to the kernel.
[PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be
annoying and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the
default cursor shape.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
---
Daniel, could you ack this?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 9:17 [PATCH] fbcon: make cursor display conditional Daniel Mack
2009-11-06 8:16 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-06 14:39 ` Andrea Righi
2009-11-06 16:45 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 8:35 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:10 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 9:15 ` [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 11:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 12:21 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 14:50 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 17:58 ` David Newall
2009-11-09 18:07 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 22:09 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:05 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:30 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:36 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:39 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-11 6:56 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-11 7:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-12 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 7:28 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
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