Re: [PATCH 10/13] PM: earlysuspend: Add console switch when user requested sleep state changes.

Pavel Machek
2009-02-05T09:51:02Z

On Thu 2009-02-05 01:37:53, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >> + Register early suspend handler to perform a console switch to
> >> + when user-space should stop drawing to the screen and a switch
> >> + back when it should resume.
> >
> > I could not parse english here.
>
> The "to"on the first line should be removed.
>
> > Actually, I'd hope that system where you control everything (such as
> > android) would not need to switch consoles. Console switch was
> > invented as a workaround for X owning the hardware....
>
> We don't anymore, but if you enable console support (for debugging) we
> support it.

I'd guess the audience of debugging people running android is pretty
limited. I'd suggest this is not really suitable for mainline.

Pavel
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