[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vconsole-setup: setup negative conditional on uml

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>>> If you're so particular about keeping primary unit files "clean", may
>>> I suggest moving the exception code to vconsole-setup.c?
>>
>> That's what I meant, yeah, sorry for the confusion.
>
> Cool, I understand that your desire to keep primary units clean: I'll
> write a patch for this.
>
> In the meantime, could you merge [1/2] assuming it's fine?

No, sorry, the same rule applies to C code as it does to unit files:
We do not collect specific exceptions for broken hacks in exotic
tools. Means: there will be _zero_ matches on UML strings in systemd
to work around the fact that UML "declares" the broken tty0 hack as
ok.

Such quirk lists of exceptions are not sustainable and will not
propagate from UML or any other subsystem to systemd.

It sounds fine so far to work around these issues, make things work
better in a *generic* way, like gracefully giving up in the running
vconsole when it finds out there is no real tty0 to work with. That we
can declare as being "robust" or "forgiving", but there will be no
specific matches/workarounds in code or unit files for deliberately
broken behavior which should just be fixed where it is caused.

We just do not support any specific hacks like that, they are wrong at
many levels and should be contained or fixed in the subsystem people
have decided to do them.

Thanks,
Kay