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

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Message-ID: <20090422101109.7beee3ee@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:11:09 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	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

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

Then we would have two completely different meanings for virtual terminal
in the kernel.

Alan
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