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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:43:48 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Soren Hansen <soren@linux2go.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's
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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.