> An ioctl could be devised to wait for updates, but I was wondering > if there could be a way to just use inotify for that. However, > drivers/char/vc_screen.c would have to collect the list of opened files > in order to notify all of them (processes may even have opened another > node with same devno as /dev/vcsa), which is not really pretty, and > actually maybe some other device drivers would want to achieve the same > kind of thing, so I was wondering whether that could fit into another > place like the generic device infrastructure? I would have thought poll() would have been cleaner. Or perhaps extending the VT event interface I added to the vt drivers in the current patches pending for 2.6.32 - poll support would probably be a bit lighter as you'd just need to do something like event_count++; wake_up(&vcsa_event_wait); and check for a count change -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
