| Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:24:36 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial merge for .38 |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:00:17PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > There was some arguing about the tty console detection patches, but as > > the existing ioctl does not work properly, Kay's patch was accepted to > > resolve this issue and allow systemd to correctly detect consoles. I > > know Alan doesn't like this, but I feel it's the best way to solve the > > issue (combined with the fact that there is no proposed other solution.) > > I'm a bit confused about this one Greg - all the distributions used the > ioctl you refer to below for this purpose and have for years > > > This series also includes the long-out-of-tree ioctl that SUSE and > > Debian have been dragging around in their kernels for the past 10+ > > years. Thanks to Werner for finally submitting it in a mergable form. > > Which I believe means we don't need the sysfs patch as well - Kay ?
I didn't think that the ioctl was sufficient for what systemd required, it was only needed for "old-style" initrd programs like what used to be used in SUSE and other distros, but are now being phased out.
Kay?
thanks,
greg k-h
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