linux.git/drivers/char/vt.c, branch v2.6.34

tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes

2010-02-09T10:13:56+00:00

In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Junio C Hamano 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

vt: remove unused variables

2010-02-05T11:22:41+00:00

Remove unused fields in drivers/char/vt.c
variables orig_buf and orig_count are assigned but never used.

Signed-off-by: Shahar Havivi 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

vt: make the default cursor shape configurable

2009-12-16T15:19:57+00:00

For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying
and unintended.  Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor
shape.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch 
Cc: Daniel Mack 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Cc: David Newall 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vt: introduce and use vt_kmsg_redirect() function

2009-12-15T16:53:28+00:00

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 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs

2009-11-13T23:54:27+00:00

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett 
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

tty: vt: use printk_once

2009-09-19T20:13:35+00:00

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver

2009-09-19T20:13:35+00:00

The VT specific compat_ioctl handlers are the only ones
in common code that require the BKL. Moving them into
the vt driver lets us remove the BKL from the other handlers
and cleans up the code.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: add an event interface

2009-09-19T20:13:24+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: includecheck fix: drivers/char, vt.c

2009-09-19T20:13:11+00:00

fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  drivers/char/vt.c: linux/device.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sparc: Kill PROM console driver.

2009-09-16T00:04:38+00:00

Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.

Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.

If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us.  We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller