From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>, G@thunk.org
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Pierre Paul MINGOT <mingot.pierre@gmail.com>,
jslaby@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:11:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160105161145.GA7138@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568BC244.5040207@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:16:52AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> >We don't do regressions.
> Requiring only a recompilation isn't a regression, especially when it works
> fine without being recompiled, and I have yet to actually see anything that
> changing the number of VT's would break other than ConsoleKit
> (systemd-logind might also need a rebuild, but I'm not sure about that, and
> don't have a system I could test it on).
Sorry, breaking a compiled binary is a regression.
People have outlined more clever ways of trying to accomplish your
goal (saving memory) without breaking other people. I suggest you
give that a try instead of just trying to defend your existing patch.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-04 15:34 Pierre Paul MINGOT
2016-01-04 15:43 ` Greg KH
2016-01-04 16:57 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-04 17:11 ` Greg KH
2016-01-04 18:41 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-04 22:55 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-05 13:16 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 15:24 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 15:33 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 16:11 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2016-01-05 16:22 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 8:51 ` Pierre Paul MINGOT
2016-01-05 13:02 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 15:25 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 15:43 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 16:03 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 18:38 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 20:47 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-06 12:42 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-06 13:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-06 14:07 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-06 13:39 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
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