Re: [PATCH] [retry] vt: add ioctl commands to /dev/vcsaN to get/put the current palette of the given tty
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From: Andrew Morton <hidden>
Date: 2009-03-04 22:17:00
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:58:48 +0100 (CET) Cedric Roux [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Cedric Roux <redacted> A ioctl interface and two ioctl commands added to /dev/vcsaN to get/put the current palette of the given tty. ... - lock_kernel() is called. Maybe it's not necessary? I'm not confident enough. You decide.
I wouldn't have a clue what it's protecting in there. But it seems sane to put it in - once someone gets down and de-lock_kernel()s that code, they can work out what it should be replaced by. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html