On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:12 +0200, Albert Herranz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like, since [1] was merged, a blanked console
> (due to inactivity for example) doesn't get unblanked
> anymore when new output is written to it.
>
> This hunk of the already metioned patch, which
> modifies vt_console_print() in drivers/char/vt.c, is
> possibly the cause:
Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The problem is that the
printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level drivers at interrupt
time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this can be a problem.
Radeonfb for example relies on beeing able to schedule() at
blank/unblank time.
If this "feature" is really important, maybe the best is to trigger the
workqueue and do the ublank from there.
Ben.
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