Re: Why does decvte.c exists?

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

> > the question goes to mainly to James Simmons (jsi...@in...).
> > 
> > The chance of getting the multihead feature into mainline
> > would be higher if the VTE was the same in the ruby tree.
> > 
> > Maintainability is better if the terminal emulator
> > is in its separate source file but why didn't you used
> > the original Linux implementation?
> 
> If anytime ruby-tree will be merged with Linus-tree, then ruby code will be
> splited into small pieces. Rather decvte.c stay out of Linus-tree.

In the mainstream kernel printk via the console driver and the tty layer 
are interwoven. Also the console driver is on top of the tty layer. My 
goal for 2.7.X is to create a very light weight printk that could work 
without the VT tty layer.