Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Adam Borowski wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:31:03AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really
> > rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind
> > of cleanup.
> 
> But... but... but what shall we do without OLCUC?!?
> 
> I guess sending these features to the pasture would be nice even in
> mainstream TTY.  Probably even without a Kconfig option to restore them.

Thing is... those arcane features don't take much code at all:

		if (O_OLCUC(tty))
			c = toupper(c);

That's it. I didn't make the minitty code 5x smaller just by omitting 
those.  ;-)


Nicolas