From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764142AbZCYRnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:43:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763493AbZCYRnO (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:43:14 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:53798 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763737AbZCYRnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:43:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:44:09 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "D. Matt Placek" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl interface to wait on VT switch Message-ID: <20090325174409.3d29dbed@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <8044b6ad0903250951w3b843e6etd6ec866404dbe455@mail.gmail.com> References: <8044b6ad0903250951w3b843e6etd6ec866404dbe455@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > if there is a better approach feedback is invited. It would simply be > nice not to have to spawn 60 threads just to wait for a console > switch, and this is a pretty minor addition to the VT system. Needs a signed-off-by line (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches) and something seems to mashed up the format by the time the file arrived here (your additions are misindented in the patch file) But other than that, well this is clearly a feature worth adding.