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[PATCH] vt: add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT

Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the
current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and
restore it after resume.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki 19 years ago
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2 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 4 0
      drivers/char/vt.c
  2. 1 0
      include/linux/tiocl.h

+ 4 - 0
drivers/char/vt.c

@@ -2328,6 +2328,10 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
 		case TIOCL_SETVESABLANK:
 			set_vesa_blanking(p);
 			break;
+		case TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT:
+			data = kmsg_redirect;
+			ret = __put_user(data, p);
+			break;
 		case TIOCL_SETKMSGREDIRECT:
 			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
 				ret = -EPERM;

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/tiocl.h

@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ struct tiocl_selection {
 #define TIOCL_SCROLLCONSOLE	13	/* scroll console */
 #define TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN	14	/* keep screen blank even if a key is pressed */
 #define TIOCL_BLANKEDSCREEN	15	/* return which vt was blanked */
+#define TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT	17	/* get the vt the kernel messages are restricted to */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_TIOCL_H */