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Message-ID: <20150124020942.GA3230@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:09:42 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Mielke <dave@...lke.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: provide notifications on selection changes

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The vcs device's poll/fasync support relies on the vt notifier to signal
> changes to the screen content.  Notifier invocations were missing for
> changes that comes through the selection interface though.  Fix that.
> 
> Tested with BRLTTY 5.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Cc: Dave Mielke <dave@...lke.cc>
> 
> ---
> 
> Greg: Would be highly convenient to have this patch applied to the 
> stable tree as well to help affected blind Linux users via distro 
> updates.  Yet it took a while before this issue was discovered. Your 
> call.

Ok, that sounds good, I'll queue this up for 3.20-rc1 and mark it for
stable so it will get backported.

thanks,

greg k-h
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