Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752745AbaFYTVo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:21:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com ([74.125.82.43]:37258 "EHLO mail-wg0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbaFYTVn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:21:43 -0400 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:21:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.16.0-rc2; KDE/4.13.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: One Thousand Gnomes , Tomasz Torcz , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , Jiri Slaby References: <20140618092730.GD22226@mother.pipebreaker.pl> <20140625133930.223cccb5@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140625133930.223cccb5@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <201406252121.38263.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 25 of June 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:27:31 +0200 > > Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > >From ea7cf47e3230eda63aa6c46092719437f9bbae8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > > From: Tomasz Torcz > > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:18:06 +0200 > > Subject: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default > > > > Remove default 10 minute blank interval. Instead: never blank by > > default. > > "Screensaving" is no longer useful. Today it only provides > > obstacle when interacting with text console, especially through > > remote lights-out management solutions. > > Screensaving is extremely useful as is power management, and power prices > are going up not down. We don't customise the upstream kernel just > because J Random User happens to want his defaults. > > There are a couple of things you can sensibly do > > 1. Just turn it off in software. It's run time configurable via setterm > > 2. If you have a reliable way of detecting the presence of a remote > console device and that device supports reporting when a connection is > made/broken you could submit a patch to make it unblank on connect. 3. unblank & disable blanking on any oops? (probably problematic) Anyway I dislike blanking here, too. > Alan -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/