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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:29:17 +0100
From: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
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Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
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On Wed, 17.11.10 17:53, Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:

> 
> 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?

Yes, of course. Sorry for the confusion.

Lennart

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