linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:29:51 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>
CC:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: change defconfig to stop spawning xterm

Am 22.07.2013 17:33, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Again what problem are you trying to solve?
>> If you want a getty on /dev/tty0, run:
> 
> To get systemd to do that for me automatically :)
> 
> It automatically does the right thing when it detects xen, bochs,
> qemu, vmware, microsoft, oracle, chroot, openvz, and lxc.  So, why not
> uml?

Ask systemd folks. UML exists much longer than systemd.

> [1/2] is about getting it to active console-getty.service when uml is detected.
> 
> [2/2] is about getting it to disable vconsole-setup.service when uml
> is detected (since it uml doesn't do VT emulation, and the service
> will always fail).
> 
> Too minor a problem?

No, but we won't break existing applications, period.
If you offer me a solution that does not break any existing applications
and solves your systemd issue we can talk. :-)

Thanks,
//richard

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