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* Revert "tty: Add a new VT mode which is like VT_PROCESS but doesn't require ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman2010-03-191-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a VT_RELDISP ioctl call" This reverts commit eec9fe7d1ab4a0dfac4cb43047a7657fffd0002f. Ari writes as the reason this should be reverted: The problems with this patch include: 1. There's at least one subtlety I overlooked - switching between X servers (i.e. from one X VT to another) still requires the cooperation of both X servers. I was assuming that KMS eliminated this. 2. It hasn't been tested at all (no X server patch exists which uses the new mode). As he was the original author of the patch, I'll revert it. Cc: Ari Entlich <atrigent@ccs.neu.edu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* tty: Add a new VT mode which is like VT_PROCESS but doesn't require a ↵Ari Entlich2010-03-021-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VT_RELDISP ioctl call This new VT mode (VT_PROCESS_AUTO) does everything that VT_PROCESS does except that it doesn't wait for a VT_RELDISP ioctl before switching away from a VT with that mode. If the X server eventually uses this new mode, debugging and crash recovery should become easier. This is because even when currently in the VT of a frozen X server it would still be possible to switch out by doing SysRq-r and then CTRL-<number of a text vt>, sshing in and doing chvt <number of a text vt>, or any other method of VT switching. The general concensus on #xorg-devel seems to be that it should be safe to use this with X now that we have KMS. This also moves the VT_ACKACQ define to a more appropriate place, for clarity's sake. Signed-off-by: Ari Entlich <atrigent@ccs.neu.edu> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* vt: don't export vt_kmsg_redirect() to userspaceBernhard Walle2009-12-171-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix following warning in linux-next by guarding the function definition (both the "extern" and the inline) with #ifdef __KERNEL__. usr/include/linux/vt.h:89: userspace cannot call function or variable defined in the kernel Introduced by commit 5ada918b82399eef3afd6a71e3637697d6bd719f ("vt: introduce and use vt_kmsg_redirect() function"). Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vt: introduce and use vt_kmsg_redirect() functionBernhard Walle2009-12-151-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel offers with TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT ioctl() the possibility to redirect the kernel messages to a specific console. However, since it's not possible to switch to the kernel message console after a panic(), it would be nice if the kernel would print the panic message on the current console. This patch series adds a new interface to access the global kmsg_redirect variable by a function to be able to use it in code where CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not set (kernel/panic.c). This patch: Instead of using and exporting a global value kmsg_redirect, introduce a function vt_kmsg_redirect() that both can set and return the console where messages are printed. Change all users of kmsg_redirect (the VT code itself and kernel/power.c) to the new interface. The main advantage is that vt_kmsg_redirect() can also be used when CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not set. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vt: Fix use of "new" in a struct fieldAlan Cox2009-11-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | As this struct is exposed to user space and the API was added for this release it's a bit of a pain for the C++ world and we still have time to fix it. Rename the fields before we end up with that pain in an actual release. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Olivier Goffart Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vt: add an activate and lockAlan Cox2009-09-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | X and other graphical interfaces need to be able to flip to a console and lock it into graphics mode without races. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* vt: move kernel stuff out of vt.hAlan Cox2009-09-191-11/+0
| | | | | | | | We have vt_kern.h for this Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* vt: add an event interfaceAlan Cox2009-09-191-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is needed and requested in various forms for ConsoleKit, screenblank handling and the like so do the job with a single interface. Also build the interface so that unlike VT_WAITACTIVE and friends it won't miss events. FIXME: Should this be a waitactive ioctl or a new device file you can poll and read events from. We need the code anyway to fix up the existing broken wait for console switch logic but the ConsoleKit people would prefer the new device to the ioctl we have here Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Console events and accessibilitySamuel Thibault2007-10-191-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output. This adds a VT notifier that such modules can use to get console output events: allocation, deallocation, writes, other updates (cursor position, switch, etc.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix headers_check] Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] vcsa attribute bits -> ioctl(VT_GETHIFONTMASK)Samuel Thibault2006-08-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character. But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested) patch: Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure). Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vt: Remove VT-specific declarations and definitions from tty.hJon Smirl2006-07-101-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | MAX_NR_CONSOLES, fg_console, want_console and last_console are more of a function of the VT layer than the TTY one. Moving these to vt.h and vt_kern.h allows all of the framebuffer and VT console drivers to remove their dependency on tty.h. [akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+54
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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