linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

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Message-ID: <20140210112116.010b1006@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk>
Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:21:16 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	systemd Mailing List <systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	dh.herrmann@...il.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Werner Fink <werner@...e.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

> Sounds good to me. The intention clearly was to point to the device in use,
> which we can find then.

I would concur.

> I would not expect problems with this change. For common uses it is the
> same name already and nothing visibly should change, and for the ones
> where it isn't the same, I expect it is not too useful to find the driver
> name.

Very few tools use it so if it doesn't break any distro init setups
(upstart, sysvinit, oh and that other one....) it ought to be fine.

Alan
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