linux-kernel - Re: [Suspend-devel] [PATCH, 3rd try] make disable_console

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Message-ID: <20070617214940.GA1951@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:49:40 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suspend-devel List <suspend-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Suspend-devel] [PATCH, 3rd try] make disable_console_suspend runtime configurable

Hi!

> > > I hate having to recompile the kernel, just to be able to debug suspend.
> > > Remove CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, replace it by a tunable in
> > > /sys/power/disable_console_suspend.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <fseidel@...e.de>
> > > ---
> > > Third try, renamed sysfs interface to console_suspend 
> > > reporting and expecting either "enabled" or "disabled"
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for redoing it.
> > 
> > I have no objections.  Pavel?
> 
> I still think that patch is bad. I should have screamed when
> CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND went into kernel. That beast should
> _not_ be configurable, it should just do the right thing.
> 
> But I realized that too late. And this only makes it works, making
> that mistake part of user-kernel interface.
> 
> Sorry for not screaming when CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND went in,
> but please lets solve this correctly....

Ouch and sorry for not screaming at "try 1" time. But it still does
not make the patch right, and I believe that even patch authors agree
that "no-config-needed" is superior solution.
								Pavel
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