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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	systemd Mailing List <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	dh.herrmann@gmail.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:21:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140210112116.010b1006@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP11BPt+bcHNELwucyXz+ZticDpZbs1Ae=c0qVeWKb69pnA@mail.gmail.com>

> Sounds good to me. The intention clearly was to point to the device in use,
> which we can find then.

I would concur.

> I would not expect problems with this change. For common uses it is the
> same name already and nothing visibly should change, and for the ones
> where it isn't the same, I expect it is not too useful to find the driver
> name.

Very few tools use it so if it doesn't break any distro init setups
(upstart, sysvinit, oh and that other one....) it ought to be fine.

Alan

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-10 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 14:27 Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-06 15:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-06 15:44   ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-06 16:29     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-07  9:02       ` Kay Sievers
2014-02-10 11:21         ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]

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