Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 09.07.2008 02:38, Mike (mwester) wrote: >> [...] >> Ok, enough said. The community will maintain a patch to make sure that >> we can read the display when the thing crashes. > > You forget that a device-disabling userspace crash will most likely not > leave any hints about the reason on screen,
Mine does, actually. Just last night I watched as an endless stream of messages scrolled by on the GTA02 after a failed resume, and managed to read enough of the text to grep the kernel sources to find it, and come up with a fix. (Did you know that pulseaudio can spam the ALSA drivers enough at resume to crash the device?) > so the exercise seems > completely pointless. It looks nice in theory, but of all crashes which > would render userspace dead, I can't imagine one which would give you > the nice error message you want. > > Feel free to correct me. :-) No worries there; I just cited a concrete example, one of many that I've encountered on the GTA01 and GTA02 recently. > Regards, > Carl-Daniel Mike (mwester)
