Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

Dave Jones
2006-07-06T23:59:52Z

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:43:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:27:28PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > > The only other new behaviors of note are that the console changes now
> > > prevent diagnostics during suspend (sigh)
> >
> > That's the biggest step backwards we've made in power management
> > in the last few years IMO. What was the reasoning behind this change?
>
> Now suspend actually _works_ for me with netconsole. Before, it very
> fundamentally wouldn't, it would panic left and right.

No, that's something else. I used to get text on the console, then
it went away[1]. some time later, you came along and did the fixes you
refer to.

Dave

[1] I think it was commit 94c188d32996beac00426740974310e32f162c14
which implies userspace can make it come back. That's great, but
what if userspace has crashed?

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