Re: [RFC] get rid of CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND

[Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>]

(CC'ing Linus, since disabling consoles during suspend was his idea IIRC)

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:34:54PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:51, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > What about this? (Only compile tested, but looks pretty obvious to
> > me). Something like this should get us rid of ugly option, and still
> > solve debugging problems... Hmmm?
> > 								Pavel
> > 
> > Kill CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND; it should not be configurable at
> > all, instead, we should automatically keep console alive when
> > possible.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/lp.c b/drivers/char/lp.c
> > index 62051f8..8267ff8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/lp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/lp.c
> > @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static unsigned int lp_count = 0;
> >  static struct class *lp_class;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE
> > -static struct parport *console_registered; // initially NULL
> > +static struct parport *console_registered;
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE */
> 
> Could you please avoid fixing things like this, white space etc. in this patch?
> It would be easier to read ...

Yes.

> I generally agree with the idea, but the patch needs a clean up, IMHO.

However, we don't know which consoles are safe to stay alive during suspend.
Generally, defaulting to suspending them all is not a bad idea IMHO.
And IIRC it is plain luck if a serial console survives the suspend (or was
the serial code fixed recently?)

So i do not care too much, but my / Frank's patch was shorter :-) and safer.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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