Re: Very preliminary dynamic pty patch

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:25:36 GMT, hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)  said:
>>
>>> Try it out and send me the oopsen :)
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/dynpty-test-1.patch
>>
>>
>> Eyeball checked only, 2 comments:
>>
>> 1) Will the embedded crew object to the removal of CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS?
>> I can see some systems that don't want either SysV or BSD pty's, unless
>> they're deeply ingrained in some way I don't understand so you can't have
>> a system with exactly one tty on a DB-9 serial port for a console 
>> without having them present too.
>>
>> 2) How much extra code to axe the BSD-style PTYs?
> 
> 
> Actually it looks like it wouldn't be too much code either way.  I'll 
> probably make them both config options (with removal of the entire pty 
> subsystem if one chooses no on both.)

Thank you, this keeps everyone happy I would think.