Why are those ioctls forcibly applied to foreground console only? This makes 
--tty option for consolechars non-functional and prevents console 
initialization (for non-ASCII charsets) as part of system startup (or as part 
of getty) because it works only when called on currently active console.

I'm running with the following patch without any ill effects nor can I see any 
harm looking in code.

Any reason it cannot be applied?

regards

-andrey