On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Console subsystem should be stopped when console device is stopped, > and restarted when console device is restarted. There is no "console device". There are potentially _many_ console devices. And you don't even know which ones they are. The old setup is BROKEN. The new setup is less so. It really is that simple. That's not to say that the new setup cannot be improved upon, though. I'm just telling you that the old one was not fixable, not the way it thought it could do things. Linus