Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

On 02/05/2014 07:53 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:
>> The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently
>> active tty devices the console is running on, not the currently
>> active console.
>> The console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs,
>> only the tty the console is running on has.
>> So we need to print out the tty names in 'active', not
>> the console names.
>>
>> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
>> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
>> index c74a00a..17db8ca 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
>> @@ -3545,9 +3545,19 @@ static ssize_t show_cons_active(struct device *dev,
>>                  if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(cs))
>>                          break;
>>          }
>> -       while (i--)
>> +       while (i--) {
>> +               const struct tty_driver *driver;
>> +               const char *name = cs[i]->name;
>> +               int index = cs[i]->index;
>> +
>> +               driver = cs[i]->device(cs[i], &index);
>> +               if (driver) {
>> +                       index += driver->name_base;
>> +                       name = driver->name;
>> +               }
>>                  count += sprintf(buf + count, "%s%d%c",
>> -                                cs[i]->name, cs[i]->index, i ? ' ':'\n');
>> +                                name, index, i ? ' ':'\n');
>> +       }
>
> Nice catch and indeed, systemd already relies on these names to be
> identical to their char-dev name. Fortunately, VTs and most serial
> devices register the console with the same name as the TTY, so we're
> fine.

What device did this trip over?

Also, this file is not private to systemd. Maybe these changes should
be forked into a different sysfs attribute, "active_devices"?

Regards,
Peter Hurley