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? -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk