Re: console struct cleanup

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > console.h just have the basic functions to get a console going
> > independent of the hardware underneath. vc_data represents the virtual
> > console. We could seperate out the VT switching code and make it generic.
> > This allows for VCs on serial consoles and other types of consoles. Thus 
> > vc_data can act as a place to store the console current state on VT
> > switching. Move all video terminal related data to vt_kern.h. Get ride of
> > kd.h and merge it in its proper place. So what do you think ? Opinions,
> > flames :->
> 
> There is entirely too much "magic"  going on in console.c. All those macros
> in console_macros.h, i  really hate them. I am pretty  much inclined to rip
> the thing apart an just pass _one_ pointer around like *BSD does in pcvt. I
> think we're in for a major clean-up job here...

I agree with you on the macro thing. I don't understand either why not
just use a pointer. Yeah it's going to be a major cleanup job. Also why is
console_map_init() in driver/block/genhd.c ? I going to do some cleanup
tonight and tomorrow. I also like to rename console.c to vt.c and vt.c to
vt_ioctl.c. I just makes sense. At least to me. 

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