Re: [PATCH] tty: Add sysfs symlink for console name->tty device

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> 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.

What tool is supposed to read that? I can't think of anything
interested in this, as soon as we have fixed the "active" console
output.

Thanks,
Kay
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