Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965014AbWIDW2f (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:28:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932149AbWIDW2f (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:28:35 -0400 Received: from relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([203.220.32.149]:26499 "EHLO relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932148AbWIDW2e (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:28:34 -0400 From: Grant Coady To: Andi Kleen Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH-mm] i8042: activate panic blink only in X Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:29:09 +1000 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: Grant Coady Message-ID: References: <200609022320.36754.dtor@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 36 On 04 Sep 2006 16:58:33 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >Dmitry Torokhov writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Here is an attempt to make panicblink only active in X so there is a >> chance of keyboard still working after panic in text console. Any reason >> why is should not be done this way? >> > >Looks good to me. > >Of course it would be even better to fix the panic stuff to not disrupt scrollback, >but short of that it's a good idea. > >-Andi (original panic blink author) I'd like to have panic blink and also be able to Shft-Up to previous console screens. If possible, kill the console blank timer too? (dunno if you have). Example: Oops screen on 2.4 recently I paged up to where the fault started, the screen blanker kicked in while I was hand copying info and wiped previous screens :( Caused significant delay in working out what the issue was (slackware-10.2 2.4.33.1 glibc nptl boo-boo). Is it safe / easy to do on oops/panic? Grant. - 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/