Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.11.10 17:27, Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> I can do any one, or multiple things from the following options:
> 
> 	- disable the existing ioctl to return an error so that no new
> 	  userspace program starts to use it thinking it is valid
> 	- accept Werner's patch for those who like proc files
> 	- accept Kay's patch
> 
> Any suggestions?

Maybe this is not so surprising, but I definitely want item #3 from the
list. 

I am against #2, since #1 is a much nicer solution, and having both
would be needlessly redundant.

And #1 would be a good idea.

Lennart

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