vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vt_kern.h b/include/linux/vt_kern.h
index c0c4e1103a73..7f56db4a79f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/vt_kern.h
+++ b/include/linux/vt_kern.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ extern char con_buf[CON_BUF_SIZE];
 extern struct mutex con_buf_mtx;
 extern char vt_dont_switch;
 extern int default_utf8;
+extern int global_cursor_default;
 
 struct vt_spawn_console {
         spinlock_t lock;
@@ -130,4 +131,6 @@ struct vt_notifier_param {
 extern int register_vt_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern int unregister_vt_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 
+extern void hide_boot_cursor(bool hide);
+
 #endif /* _VT_KERN_H */