[RFC PATCH 4/5] hvc_console: Add tty window resizing

[Rusty Russell]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:12:51 Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> From: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> The patch provides the hvc_resize() function to update the terminal
> window dimensions (struct winsize) for a specified hvc console.
> The function stores the new window size and schedules a function
> that finally updates the tty winsize and signals the change to
> user space (SIGWINCH).
> Because the winsize update must acquire a mutex and might sleep,
> the function is scheduled instead of being called from hvc_poll()
> or khvcd.

I want this functionality for lguest, too.  But I don't see anything which 
uses this call yet?   Are we going to use the config_change notifier from 
virtio?  (Which IIRC neither S/390 nor lguest have plumbed in).

Cheers,
Rusty.