Re: [PATCH] vt: provide notifications on selection changes

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The vcs device's poll/fasync support relies on the vt notifier to signal
> changes to the screen content.  Notifier invocations were missing for
> changes that comes through the selection interface though.  Fix that.
> 
> Tested with BRLTTY 5.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
> Greg: Would be highly convenient to have this patch applied to the 
> stable tree as well to help affected blind Linux users via distro 
> updates.  Yet it took a while before this issue was discovered. Your 
> call.

Ok, that sounds good, I'll queue this up for 3.20-rc1 and mark it for
stable so it will get backported.

thanks,

greg k-h
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