On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Cristian Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote: > El 12/04/13 13:53, Stanislav Brabec escribió: >> >> Add support for setting of initial state of NumLock. Supported values >> >> are "yes", "no" and "bios" (on x86 platforms). >> >> It sets NumLock in virtual consoles. If NumLock should be turned on, it >> also creates empty /run/numlock-on, which can be used e. g. for setting >> of X session default. >> >> This ports a feature that exists for a long time in SUSE to systemd. > > Please apply the attached patch on top of this one.
Upstream systemd should not add more features to the utterly broken kernel console font/keymap/... handling, it should stay as minimal as possible and not get any fancy things. What we have today does not even work, it's full of bugs, issues we can't solve, and full of promises we can't hold today. Kernel VTs are just a forgotten and not-really-working kernel facility, nobody will fix it for us, hence we should not make it more complicated as it already is, but work on leaving it behind. If things work out as planned, we will switch all the kernel VTs over to sane and proper font/keymap handling in userspace (kmscon or whatever it will be called then) and leave the original kernel VTs as a plain debug console which is no longer in use by default. If distributions needs and supports such a console features they better ship it downstream, upstream should not fiddle with even more weird kernel switches here. We do not consider these things as features everybody should have. Kernel VTs not the future, not the direction we are heading; every feature we add here now, we kind-of need to carry over to the new world where people are working on, and the fewer things we need to support the better. Thanks for understanding, Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
