From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262152AbTJ3DDU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:03:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262158AbTJ3DDT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:03:19 -0500 Received: from taco.zianet.com ([216.234.192.159]:62735 "HELO taco.zianet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262152AbTJ3DDS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:03:18 -0500 From: Steven Cole To: rob@landley.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:35:28 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200310291857.40722.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200310291857.40722.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310291935.28554.elenstev@mesatop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:57 pm, Rob Landley wrote: > Unfortunately, while I was writing down the panic on a piece of paper, the > screen blanking code kicked in while I was still copying down the register > values. I remember that the call trace mentioned some variant of a > write_stuff_to_disk call, but that's not that useful... > > When is the last time that the screen blanking code actually accomplished > something useful? These days it seems to exist for the purpose of > destroying panic call traces and annoying people. (I seem to remember that > pressing a key used to make it come back, but now we're forced to use the > input core that no longer seems to be the case...) > > I also seem to remember a patch floating by on the list that would make > console screen blanking go away. I really think console screen blanking > NOT being enabled should be the default these days. Or at the very least, > when there's a panic it should get shut off. I'll add looking into that to > my to-do list, but will probably get to it somewhere around 2009... > > Rob In the meantime, keeping a digital camera close by when testing is a low tech/high tech solution to this. Steven