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

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/16/2010 05:14 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 23:40 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>> I think PM is in a lot better shape than 2 years ago. I'd forgotten about it.
>>>> Drop it.
>>
>> Again, personally I'd like to keep it for use as a debugging tool.
>>
>> It has served me well over the last few weeks.
>>
>> By all means turn it off by default, but I'd like to keep it for future use if possible.
>
> Even if we do keep it but disable by default, not to mention I'd add to
> to the config enforcer, you'll still have to modify the config and build
> a custom kernel to enable it.  In that sense it seems it wouldn't be
> that much more effort to apply the patch at the same time.
>
> By dropping it we avoid having old cruft in the distro kernel which
> deviates us from mainline and knowingly breaks suspend/resume for some
> users.  It also has the potential to add a maintenance burden every time
> we rebase and definitely adds additional bloat when we do our delta
> review at the beginning of each release cycle.
>
> Give me till tomorrow to ponder over it more.  I'd be happy to hear
> anyone else's feedback as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
>

+1 for Leann's opinion. You can instrument your own kernels. The distro 
does not need to carry this kind of cruft.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com