Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:14:02 -0700 | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts |
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:38:29AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:55:41PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> On 04/11/2012 04:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > > >> > That all seems pretty simple. > >> > > >> >> - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy mode' > >> >> mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace should > >> >> ever be required to fiddle with such stuff > >> > > >> > Hm, but if we get rid of them, what about tools that expect them to be > >> > there? Just silently ignore them? > >> > > >> > >> Drop the newinstance mount option on the floor; keep recognizing the > >> ptmxmode mount option but change the default. > > > > Wait, change the default to what? > > Of the devpts fs mount option. The 'newinstance' one, which should not > have existed in the first place. > > > I think this is going to require a lot of testing :) > > In the example patch I posted and which I ran here, I just removed the > entire option. This was just to show that userspace does not want to > be taught dirty tricks that need updating of early-boot tools. All > such pretty self-contained stuff should be in the kernel itself. > Userspace wants to be dumb here, and that worked fine so far with that > patch. :)
I missed your patch, sorry, am catching up on the email thread now...
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