From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:43:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100514174348.74b74821@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dd0991d71cac0a746891863264941c100bbc67a.1273825543.git.soren@linux2go.dk>
On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200
Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk> wrote:
> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
> and namespace.
We've got a perfect good udev and symlink functionality to
rename devices in userspace.
NAK.
I can see why its useful as a hack in a specific user environment but its
not appropriate for upstream.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 16:11 [PATCH 0/2] A couple of workarounds for Xen based VPS services Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-05-14 16:50 ` Soren Hansen
2010-05-18 21:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make the Xen block device prefix configurable Soren Hansen
2010-05-14 16:29 ` Randy Dunlap
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