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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Adam Borowski wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:31:03AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really
> > rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind
> > of cleanup.
>
> But... but... but what shall we do without OLCUC?!?
>
> I guess sending these features to the pasture would be nice even in
> mainstream TTY. Probably even without a Kconfig option to restore them.

Thing is... those arcane features don't take much code at all:

if (O_OLCUC(tty))
c = toupper(c);

That's it. I didn't make the minitty code 5x smaller just by omitting
those. ;-)


Nicolas

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