Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Borntraeger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] hvc_console: Add tty window resizing | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:58:40 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008 schrieb Rusty Russell: > > The patch provides the hvc_resize() function to update the terminal > > window dimensions (struct winsize) for a specified hvc console. > > The function stores the new window size and schedules a function > > that finally updates the tty winsize and signals the change to > > user space (SIGWINCH). > > Because the winsize update must acquire a mutex and might sleep, > > the function is scheduled instead of being called from hvc_poll() > > or khvcd. > > I want this functionality for lguest, too. But I don't see anything which > uses this call yet? Are we going to use the config_change notifier from > virtio? (Which IIRC neither S/390 nor lguest have plumbed in).
I have some prototype patches for virtio_console, but did not find the time to finish them.
Christian
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