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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jslaby@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] um: TTY fixes (?)
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:41:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD0D9AF.4000605@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607175024.696be664@bob.linux.org.uk>

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Am 07.06.2012 18:50, schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:32:42 +0200
> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> 
>> Am 07.06.2012 18:37, schrieb Alan Cox:
>>> Yes I know exactly what is going on. However getting a more tolerant
>>> behaviour is going to take a couple more kernels.
>>>
>>
>> So, then please tell me what's the proper way to fix the UML console
>> driver?
>>
>> - tty_port plus ->hangup() works only with a patched util-linux
>> - tty_port without ->hangup() seems to work only if *getty does not
>> call vhangup()
> 
> There isn't a nice one. It'll have to wait until 3.6/7 or so to get
> fixed nicely and it won't backport either.
> 

Hmm, that's odd.
What about the not nice ways?
Having a ugly driver until 3.7 is better than having no driver...

I'm wondering why does drivers/tty/vt/vt.c work?
Can't I model the UML driver after it?

Thanks,
//richard




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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-07 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04 20:27 um: TTY fixes (?) Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] TTY: um/line, add tty_port Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] TTY: um/line, use tty from tty_port Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] um: remove line_ioctl() Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] um: Remove dead code Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] um: fully use tty_port Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 20:47   ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] um: remove count_lock Richard Weinberger
2012-06-04 21:17 ` um: TTY fixes (?) Alan Cox
2012-06-04 23:14   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-05 10:41     ` Karel Zak
2012-06-05 11:15       ` Alan Cox
2012-06-05 12:20         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-05 15:17           ` Karel Zak
2012-07-12 14:49             ` Karel Zak
2012-07-12 15:01               ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-06 23:17   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-07  9:19     ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07  9:06       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-06 14:20 ` [uml-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07  7:35   ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07  7:43     ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07  8:45     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-07  9:22       ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07 10:14       ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07 10:19         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-07 10:35           ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07 10:52           ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07 13:41             ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-06-07 15:18             ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-07 16:37               ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07 16:32                 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-07 16:50                   ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07 16:41                     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2012-06-07 17:26                       ` Alan Cox

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