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

Ramkumar Ramachandra artagnon at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 02:55:13 PDT 2013


Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Got it.  So, it should have provided /dev/tum* (or something) instead
> of /dev/tty*.  But what can we do about it now?  I certainly cannot
> remove /dev/tty* and murder the users.

Wait, I think I have an idea to preserve backward compatibility.  I'll
remove the /dev/tty* devices and replace them with /dev/hvc* devices,
and deprecate the con=tty command-line option to actually connect to
/dev/hvc*.

*goes off to write patches*


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