On Thursday 06 July 2006 4:27 pm, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:27:28PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > The only other new behaviors of note are that the console changes now > > prevent diagnostics during suspend (sigh) > > That's the biggest step backwards we've made in power management > in the last few years IMO. What was the reasoning behind this change? Linus gave more details somewhere earlier in this thread, before it veered seriously off-topic. Short version: console shutdown was being done incorrectly, and in a way that prevented STR from working on Linus' x86-Apple. He was using netconsole. Likely a better fix is available (e.g. suspending console device and its ancestors at the latest possible point), but nobody has yet made the time to produce one. - Dave
