Jaunty config changes: Reduce CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT to 0
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Tue Dec 23 14:17:33 UTC 2008
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:23:00AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> From 4e79291096b0d6adc9726607c8f6b7df736a877e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:51:12 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Reduce CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT to 0
>
> Requested by Scott Remnant, "Absolutely nothing we know of uses these legacy
> ptys (xterm statically linked with libc4?!) - though if someone really wants
> them, leaving the top option as y lets them create them with a boot-time option."
>
> This will save a bunch of mknod()s, since each legacy pty has two device nodes.
ACK. How do we handle the Release note side of this? Perhaps there
should be a LP bug for it or something?
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
-apw
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