Re: [PATCH 3.11 085/121] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Ray Strode <halfline@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This broke plymouth, i think.  Plymouth used the herustic:
>> "/sys/class/tty/console/active contains something other than tty0" to
>> mean "probably has serial consoles, force verbose messages instead of
>> a splash screen".  Now on a normal system it contains tty1.
>>
>> I pushed a commit to plymouth that gets it working again, but it could
>> cause compatiblity concerns if new kernels are pushed to old releases.
>
> Hm.  Breaking userspace is probably a bad thing here.
>
> Greg, you have this queued for 3.13.5 at the moment.  Maybe we should
> hold off on this one until this discussion is sorted out?

Looks like a broken patch, not a broken idea. So you should probably
hold off on this one till we figure it out. See Kay's comment on
Greg's series for more.

Thanks
David
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/