[Corrected Lennart's email ID]
Richard Weinberger wrote: > 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/
