This patch set moves the UML console driver to the new TTY port interface.
It does ref counting and uses the tty_port_*-helpers.
Please note, it's not yet UML mconsole safe!
Anyway, I see some really strange things and I'm not sure whether my patch
is sane or not...
If I implement tty_operations->hangup() the following happens:
FC12:
Login on tty0 works fine.
On all other ttys login works but bash dies because of of -EIO.
After vhangup() the tty returns -EIO upon read()/write().
FC16:
Login broken on all ttys (bash dies with EIO like on FC12).
If I start UML with rootfs read-only login works on tty0. - WTF?!
Debian 6.0:
Login works perfectly fine on all ttys
Without tty_operations->hangup() the following happens:
FC12:
Login on tty0 works fine.
mingetty is unable to start on anything else than tty0.
It exits after a few seconds.
FC16:
Unable to start any mingetty (like on FC12 it exits after a few seconds)
With read-only rootfs mingetty starts at least on tty0 and login works.
(Again, WTF?)
Debian 6.0
Login works perfectly fine on all ttys.
I have no idea what's the root cause of this, there seems to be a lot of black
magic
involved.
Alan, do you think the issues are caused by Fedora's broken user space?
How can we fix this?
Thanks,
//richard (wearing a voodoo priests robe)
[PATCH 1/6] TTY: um/line, add tty_port
[PATCH 2/6] TTY: um/line, use tty from tty_port
[PATCH 3/6] um: remove line_ioctl()
[PATCH 4/6] um: Remove dead code
[PATCH 5/6] um: fully use tty_port
[PATCH 6/6] um: remove count_lock
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