linux-kernel - Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

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Message-ID: <20090422082547.GB31246@shareable.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:25:47 +0100
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@...co.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ Actually, looking closer we should not use that particular name: we 
>   already have something called a "console_driver" which is really the 
>   "current VT" driver.

Speaking of names... The word "console" is used to mean three
different things in the kernel.  Last time I had to understand the
console code (because it wasn't showing on some device) that didn't
help.  But it was a 2.4 kernel 2 years ago so I didn't submit a patch :-)

It would be a sensible though boring cleanup to change all the "VC"
(virtual console) stuff to use the name "VT" (virtual terminal)
consistently.

-- Jamie
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