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| author | Antonino A. Daplas | 2006-06-26 09:27:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-06-26 18:58:33 +0200 |
| commit | 13ae66458971b4967350765a8bfaf2a636442e5f (patch) | |
| tree | 37940517f06cbb500c77770da71986c5cced6772 /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | [PATCH] VT binding: Add sysfs control to the VT layer (diff) | |
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[PATCH] VT binding: Make VT binding a Kconfig option
To enable this feature, CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING must be set to 'y'. This
feature will default to 'n' to minimize users accidentally corrupting their
virtual terminals.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index ed31638bd75c..3610c5729553 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -62,6 +62,23 @@ config HW_CONSOLE depends on VT && !S390 && !UML default y +config VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING + bool "Support for binding and unbinding console drivers" + depends on HW_CONSOLE + default n + ---help--- + The virtual terminal is the device that interacts with the physical + terminal through console drivers. On these systems, at least one + console driver is loaded. In other configurations, additional console + drivers may be enabled, such as the framebuffer console. If more than + 1 console driver is enabled, setting this to 'y' will allow you to + select the console driver that will serve as the backend for the + virtual terminals. + + See <file:Documentation/console/console.txt> for more + information. For framebuffer console users, please refer to + <file:Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt>. + config SERIAL_NONSTANDARD bool "Non-standard serial port support" ---help--- |