From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson Subject: Re: pause to allow user to read final screen before poweroff Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:04:46 +0800 Message-ID: <874mcq4ttt.fsf@jidanni.org> References: Reply-To: jidanni@jidanni.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from homie.mail.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.208]:42842 "EHLO homiemail-a7.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760AbcCAGEu (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 01:04:50 -0500 Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: yu chen Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "yc" == yu chen writes: yc> Sometimes people use serialport,etc, Well 99% of simple users have no such equipment. yc> why do you want to record the last message for poweroff? I know yc> there is similar scenario for panic of panic_timeout. I know it is tough to record at this point, so instead I'm proposing this to just allow the user to have a chance to read, not record. He might have noticed something funny last poweroff, and would like to have a chance to see what it says next time, or every time.