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

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 17:26:30 EST


On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:10:12 +0200, Soren Hansen said:
> Allow for hvc based tty's to take over the vt driver's major number
> and namespace.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK
> +#define HVC_MAJOR 4
> +#else /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
> #define HVC_MAJOR 229
> +#endif /* CONFIG_HVC_TTY_HACK */
> #define HVC_MINOR 0

Out of curiosity, what happens if you boot a kernel with this config hack
on a system that has real live "plain old ttys"?

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