linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT

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Message-ID: <20070907002624.GA12631@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:26:24 -0400
From:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@...or.com) said: 
> Hmmm...
>
> Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in 
> /etc/sysctl.conf.  My second preference would be a command-line option, not 
> a compile-time default.
>
> This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default, 
> anything else legacy...

At the moment, it's a module parameter (ergo sysfs), not /proc/sys.
Also, this patch ties unicode for the keyboard as well.

Bill
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