[PATCH] setconsole: open console for writing rather than reading

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:51, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> The console passed to TIOCCONS has to be writable, otherwise future
> console writes will fail.
> 
> This presumably used to work, but in current kernels (see
> drivers/tty/tty_io.c:redirected_tty_write) console writes are sent to
> vfs_write(device), which checks if the device is writable. A quick look
> in the linux git history doesn't show any recent changes to either tty_io
> or vfs_write.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk>

Applied, thanks!
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