Re: [PATCH] vc_screen: don't clobber return value in vcs_read

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Fri Mar 10 2023 - 16:32:37 EST


On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 02:58:46PM -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>
> > Does this mean the screenreader now works correctly or is it still
> > broken somehow?
> >
> > Thomas
>
> I have still been testing this kernel. Most things work as expected, but
> the pasting functionality for Fenrir's clipboard is broken. After
> checking into the problem, it seems that tiocsti is disabled, and that
> is causing the problem. Was that something done in this test kernel
> only, or will that be the default for all new Arch kernels? If it is the
> default, is there a way to turn it back on? I tried the following:
>
> [storm@mjollnir ~] $ sudo sysctl dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1
> sysctl: setting key "dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti": Invalid argument

The sysctl to enable the ioctl should be fixed in 6.2.3:

pacman -U https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/linux-6.2.3.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Thomas