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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:53:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118015310.GA30480@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118014848.GA7873@tango.0pointer.de>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:48:48AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 17.11.10 17:27, Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> 
> > I can do any one, or multiple things from the following options:
> > 
> > 	- disable the existing ioctl to return an error so that no new
> > 	  userspace program starts to use it thinking it is valid
> > 	- accept Werner's patch for those who like proc files
> > 	- accept Kay's patch
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Maybe this is not so surprising, but I definitely want item #3 from the
> list. 
> 
> I am against #2, since #1 is a much nicer solution, and having both
> would be needlessly redundant.

I think you mean s/1/3/ here, right?

And yes, having both will be redundant, and Werner seems to not be
responding anymore as to why he feels his patch is somehow still needed
given that Kay's patch accomplishes the same thing from what I can tell.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 15:46 tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 16:13   ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 17:14     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 18:51       ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 19:55         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 20:15           ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 20:49             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 21:29               ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 21:42               ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 22:51                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 22:58                   ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:04                     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 23:18                       ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:49                         ` Etched Pixels
2010-11-16 21:36           ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 22:56             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 23:10               ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:45                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-17 16:31                 ` John Stoffel
2010-11-17 22:01                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-11-17 23:40                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-17 23:56                     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18  1:27                       ` Greg KH
2010-11-18  1:48                         ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-18  1:53                           ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-18  2:29                             ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-18 11:00                             ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 11:23                               ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 12:12                                 ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 12:58                                   ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 13:14                                     ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 14:41                                       ` Alan Cox
2010-11-19 13:21                                         ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-19 15:47                                           ` Alan Cox
2010-11-19 17:07                                             ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-19 18:02                                             ` Greg KH
2010-11-19 18:41                                               ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-20 12:40                                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-12-01 11:15                                                   ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 12:04                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-18 10:15                         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 11:55                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-18 13:01                             ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <20101201112004.12d78cd7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
2010-12-01 12:32 ` Dr. Werner Fink
     [not found]   ` <tiocgdev1@mdm.bga.com>
2010-12-03 11:48     ` Dr. Werner Fink

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