[RFC] [Maverick] UBUNTU: SAUCE: pm: Config option to disable handling of console during suspend/resume

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Jun 16, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10 Jun 16, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> > Hi Amit,
> > 
> > We've got a bug report [1] from Phillip (CC'd) that when resuming from
> > suspend on Maverick his display never comes back out of power save mode
> > with the latest 2.6.35 Maverick kernels.  He tested yesterday's 2.6.35
> > daily mainline build and could not reproduce the issue.  He was able to
> > narrow it down to the CONFIG_PM_DISABLE_CONSOLE option being enabled.
> > This config option originates from an Ubuntu SAUCE patch (inlined below)
> > which was authored by yourself a few years ago.  Is it still necessary
> > that we carry this patch?  I'm inclined to drop it, or at least disable
> > the config option, especially since it appears to be causing issues.
> > Your thoughts? 
> > 
> 
> I think PM is in a lot better shape than 2 years ago. I'd forgotten about it.
> Drop it.
> 
> It might be worth creating a test kernel with that patch dropped for Lucid
> too and posting it to suspend-related bugs.
> 
> /Amit
> 

I forgot to mention that it was more of a debugging tool, so I am not sure if
should be enabled by default.

/Amit
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