linux-kernel - Re: inotify on /dev/vcsa?

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Message-ID: <20090720235514.GT5397@const.famille.thibault.fr>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:55:14 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-console@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify on /dev/vcsa?

Alan Cox, le Tue 21 Jul 2009 00:51:08 +0100, a écrit :
> I would have thought poll() would have been cleaner. Or perhaps extending
> the VT event interface I added to the vt drivers in the current patches
> pending for 2.6.32 - poll support would probably be a bit lighter as
> you'd just need to do something like
> 
> 	event_count++;
> 	wake_up(&vcsa_event_wait);
> 
> and check for a count change

Sounds like a good plan indeed.

Samuel
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