Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:15:16 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r269474 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/vt Message-ID: <201408111315.16939.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140805091730.N2827@besplex.bde.org> References: <53de340e.52ce.7073778e@svn.freebsd.org> <F59A7643-BE56-416A-A62C-42DAEF888E81@FreeBSD.org> <20140805091730.N2827@besplex.bde.org>
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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@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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