tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute
authorHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:30:51 +0000 (12:30 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:23:20 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
commit66f328f3931d53a33c10c1003133bba1a2f5cb00
treeb3fae68382729b4e3d268c763e90868166a80ba4
parent4a4033cbb11d3fbf963a657ad621cd12f751bbc7
tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

commit 723abd87f6e536f1353c8f64f621520bc29523a3 upstream.

The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently active tty
devices the console is running on, not the currently active console. The
console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs, only the tty the
console is running on has. So we need to print out the tty names in
'active', not the console names.

There is one special-case, which is tty0. If the console is directed to
it, we want 'tty0' to show up in the file, so user-space knows that the
messages get forwarded to the active VT. The ->device() callback would
resolve tty0, though. Hence, treat it special and don't call into the VT
layer to resolve it (plymouth is known to depend on it).

Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: no TTY_DRIVER_UNNUMBERED_NODE case in tty_line_name()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c