From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console: make blank timeout value a boot option
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:44:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090604074407.GX26148@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090604002325.5b1284de.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:23:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -545,6 +545,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
> > console=brl,ttyS0
> > For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
> >
> > + consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
> > + seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
> > + disables the blank timer.
> > +
>
> It would be better to make this alterable at runtime, rather than at
> boot time. Perhaps another VT ioctl.
That's already possible - there is an ioctl for that. It's just not
configurable at boot time, and that occured to be very annoying when
developing systems that won't fully boot up for >10mins. You have no way
to wake up the console then.
Is there any concern why that shouldn't be a kernel option?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 14:46 [PATCH] console: make blank timeout value a boot option Daniel Mack
2009-06-04 7:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04 7:44 ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2009-06-04 8:17 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04 8:37 ` Daniel Mack
2009-06-04 8:46 ` Andrew Morton
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