Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:49 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: Add sysfs symlink for console name->tty device |
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:40:51AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: > Enable a user-space process to discover the underlying tty device > for a console, if one exists, and when the tty device is later > created or destroyed.
What userspace code has been tested with this change?
> Add sysfs symlinks for registered consoles to their respective > devices in [sys/class,sys/devices/virtual]/tty/console. > Scan consoles at tty device (un)registration to handle deferred > console<->device (un)binding.
I don't understand, what does userspace now look like in sysfs? Do we need Documentation/ABI/ updates here?
And David has fixed up his original patch, which doesn't break plymouth, and I'll be taking that, so I don't see why this patch is needed.
thanks,
greg k-h
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