From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arthur Taylor <art@ified.ca>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Drop K_OFF for VC_MUTE
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:58:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121120145804.74c74400@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353090754-30233-1-git-send-email-ajax@redhat.com>
> Drop the K_OFF handling and replace it with a new "mute" ioctl pair.
> Anybody using K_OFF would already need to be prepared to handle it
> throwing -EINVAL for old kernel compatibility, so userspace will degrade
> gracefully.
Interesting theory. It may degrade but it'll degrade to a state worse
than current.
I don't see why K_OFF needs to go away. If the mute ioctl handling also
affects mute mode too then it should just work.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-20 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-16 18:32 Adam Jackson
2012-11-20 14:40 ` Josh Boyer
2012-11-20 14:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-12-12 18:08 ` Arthur Taylor
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