svn commit: r269474 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/vt
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 11 21:29:06 UTC 2014
On Monday, August 04, 2014 8:03:58 pm Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On Aug 3, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Log:
> >> Allow to disable some special key combinations handled by vt(4), like debug
> >> request, reboot request.
> >>
> >> Requested by: Claude Buisson
> >>
> >> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
> >
> > I realize the API uses 'SPCL' as an abbreviation, but for user-facing things like a sysctl and tunable, I think it might be better to spell it out as
"specialkeys" instead?
>
> It is a bad name, and also gratuitously different from syscons where the
> names are:
>
> hw.syscons.kbd_reboot
> hw.syscons.kbd_debug
> hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch
I would prefer individual nodes for vt along these lines as I think it is
clearer to the user ("what exactly constitutes a special key?")
--
John Baldwin
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