On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no> wrote: >> No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in >> vconsole.conf. >> >> The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users >> of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these >> character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not >> any longer. >> >> Rationale: >> >> * it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different >> from adding FONT=""; >> * the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the >> upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should >> admittedly be fixed in the font itself); >> * the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to >> use that unless anything else is specified; >> * This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and >> * We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the >> compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason). > > Looks good to me. Let's see what Lennart thinks. > > I'm convinced that we should just leave the kernel alone if there is > no explicit configuration, the default should be no vconsole.conf > file, and no action at all by the service. Only if things are > specified, we should apply them. > > Distributions can ship these configs as needed, and any non-latin > locale will need custom settings here anyway, so keeping the kernel's > default sounds like the right thing here. > > Now there is also the keymap, which we very likely should not touch > either without explicitly asked for. I think the same rules as for the > font should apply here too.
Please apply this. If you like, change the keymap logic to follow the same do-not-touch-the-defaults model. We will ship the default setting in the distro config as needed. Upstream should leave the kernel alone if not explicitly configured. Thanks, Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
