Excessive KDSETMODE ioctls

Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 05:03:09 PST 2014


Hi,

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Drake <drake at endlessm.com> wrote:
> I noticed that plymouth generates a zillion KDSETMODE(graphics) ioctls
> when animating. Not harmful, but doesn't seem quite right.
I think it was done a long time ago to work around other parts of the
boot process doing unsavory things to the console while plymouth was
running.  I think it's probably worth removing at this point and
fixing any issues that crop up.

--Ray


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