CC'ing Lennart. Am 22.07.2013 11:45, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> [1]: >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012152.html > > ... and the patches were rejected. Lennart says that UML providing > /dev/tty* is wrong, and that UML should call them /dev/hvc* (or > something). Can we do something about the situation? Can we remove > /dev/tty*, and provide /dev/hvc*? Will we be breaking existing users? > > Thanks. > > Lennart Poettering wrote: >> UML shouldn't be penalized for not implementing some terminal emulation, >> but it should be penalized for doing so under the label of "VT support", >> which it simply is not providing. >> >> They can call their ttys any way they want. If the call them >> /dev/tty[1..64] however, then they need to implement the VC >> interfaces. All of them.
Lennart, can you please explain us why /dev/tty[1..64] is forced to have virtual console support? Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
