Re: Anaconda patches

"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Organization Red Hat
Message-ID <1070902225.5010.45.camel@zorak>
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:17, Dean Anderson wrote:

> An alternate, and even preferable fix would be to have virtual terminals
> work for serial ports.  This is possible and probably nicer, but requires
> some more kernel hacking, and some agreement on what the serial control
> sequence should be for switching, how to turn it off later so that ppp
> connections don't change vtys, etc. All doable, but probably not so easy
> as it sounds.  Probably this is why it doesn't exist.

I think this may have actually been done somewhat in 2.6. Pete Zaitcev
was talking about something like this on the sparc kernel list a while
back.

~spot
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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE 
Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader

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