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

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 20:55, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> we always will apply the final result just fine, when stuff stops
>> changing. It's actually a nice feature and no a problem at all, that
>> we only see the most recent state.
>
> Stuff never stops changing until the machine shuts down, its undefined.

Either you don't, or you just don't want to understand what all this
is about. :)

>> Sure, with the ioctl() we've seen many not interesting changes, but we
>> often miss the single one that is important -- the last last one. The
>> thing is that we don't need to sleep here and miss changes.
>
> So we fix the ioctl interface, it's not exactly hard to do now is it.
>
>> It's a straight-forward and simple text interface that does all we
>> need to track console and vt changes.
>
> Except that it doesn't address things like the permissions side of things.
>
> NAK again

Specifics please.

> "We have an interface that doesn't quite work for our case and we think
> that is a bug" is not the reasoning behind writing a new random one with
> a totally disconnected permission model that doesn't work either.
>
> Fix the one we have.

So how do you think you'll fix it? I better don't get into your
ioctl() business.

Kay
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