Re: [Suspend-devel] [PATCH, 3rd try] make disable_console_suspend runtime configurable

[Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:49:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > I hate having to recompile the kernel, just to be able to debug suspend.
> > > > Remove CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, replace it by a tunable in
> > > > /sys/power/disable_console_suspend.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>
> > > > ---
> > > > Third try, renamed sysfs interface to console_suspend 
> > > > reporting and expecting either "enabled" or "disabled"
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot for redoing it.
> > > 
> > > I have no objections.  Pavel?
> > 
> > I still think that patch is bad. I should have screamed when
> > CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND went into kernel. That beast should
> > _not_ be configurable, it should just do the right thing.
> > 
> > But I realized that too late. And this only makes it works, making
> > that mistake part of user-kernel interface.
> > 
> > Sorry for not screaming when CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND went in,
> > but please lets solve this correctly....
> 
> Ouch and sorry for not screaming at "try 1" time. But it still does
> not make the patch right, and I believe that even patch authors agree
> that "no-config-needed" is superior solution.

No, i don't agree at all.

In this case, "no config needed" == "not possible to debug suspend problems".

IMO this is the same as issue as with "sysrq-C". You can crash the machine by
other means, but it sometimes is just handy to have a mechanism to do it.

I do not understand what's the problem with this option. If you want to avoid
that people use it for something else than debugging, i can add a patch that
crashes the machine ten seconds after resume if this option is set.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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