Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow hvc tty's to pose as vt's

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 12:37:17 EST


On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200
Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
> and namespace.

We've got a perfect good udev and symlink functionality to
rename devices in userspace.

NAK.

I can see why its useful as a hack in a specific user environment but its
not appropriate for upstream.

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