Re: [PATCH 4/7] termios: consolidate values for VDISCARD in INIT_C_CC

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Aug 20 2022 - 14:01:52 EST


On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> However, util-linux still resets it to ^O on any architecture,
> ^O is the historical value, kernel ignores it anyway and finally,
> Linus said "Just change everybody to do the same, nobody cares
> about VDISCARD".

Heh. Grepping for DISCARD_CHAR() shows that there literally doesn't
seem to be any user.

I guess some user space program could care what the initial value is,
but it seems very unlikely.

Linus