[linux-pm] [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:43:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, 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?
 > 
 > Now suspend actually _works_ for me with netconsole. Before, it very 
 > fundamentally wouldn't, it would panic left and right.

No, that's something else.  I used to get text on the console, then
it went away[1]. some time later, you came along and did the fixes you
refer to.

		Dave

[1] I think it was commit 94c188d32996beac00426740974310e32f162c14
which implies userspace can make it come back. That's great, but
what if userspace has crashed?

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