From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752458AbbATTIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:08:38 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.216.50]:37883 "EHLO mail-qa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751694AbbATTIg (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:08:36 -0500 Message-ID: <54BEA7B2.2060708@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:08:34 -0500 From: Peter Hurley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Chu CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , One Thousand Gnomes , Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support References: <1421616632-4077-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <54BC3771.7030204@symas.com> <54BC5EC7.1090202@hurleysoftware.com> <54BCFC94.1040605@symas.com> <54BD1B53.9030901@hurleysoftware.com> <54BD328F.9090208@symas.com> <54BD567C.8070200@hurleysoftware.com> <54BD5E54.3050909@symas.com> <54BE9840.8080808@hurleysoftware.com> <54BEA0E0.9080807@symas.com> In-Reply-To: <54BEA0E0.9080807@symas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2015 01:39 PM, Howard Chu wrote: > Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 01/19/2015 02:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote: [...] >> So it's really back to the question of, does allowing EXTPROC for regular >> ttys have _value_? > > Does preventing it have value? Not that that is the appropriate metric for kernel behavior, but yes, preventing it has value: it significantly limits the matrix required for testing. > I like having the option of turning linemode on and off in a session, for debugging purposes if nothing else. ... which is just as achievable with a pty-specific ioctl. Regards, Peter Hurley