Re: BREAK and magic SysRq handling for Z8530

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:38:37AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  It's actually the reverse. ;-)  Without these (oh well, sunkbd.c is for
> completeness, indeed) you cannot compile-in the magic SysRq support if you
> do not include the virtual terminal driver.  This is an unnecessary
> limitation -- I don't want the VT (well, actually I would, if I had a
> driver for my console, but I haven't, yet). 
> 
>  Such changes actually went into the Linus' 2.4.0-test6-pre* (but not mine
> -- someone overtook me, and he also missed one bit ;-) ).

That probably where Prumpf's changes; I recently discussed various problem
with SysRq with him.  I guess he only tried to fix the HP part of the
problem.

  Ralf