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

Linus Torvalds
2006-07-07T04:48:55Z

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> 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.

Ahh.

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

Ok, that's a different thing, not the normal kernel suspend path, but the
user snapshotting thing.

It seems to expect the user-land tools to do the pm_prepare_console() and
pm_restore_console() for you..

Linus