On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
> Bootsplash only drops to verbose mode on escape and F2 as far as I can
> see. At least the kernel has something like this:
>
> ---
> #ifdef CONFIG_BOOTSPLASH
> /* This code has to be redone for some non-x86 platforms */
> if (down == 1 && (keycode == 0x3c || keycode == 0x01)) { /* F2
> and ESC on PC keyboard */
> extern int splash_verbose(void);
> printk(KERN_INFO "splash_verbose in keyboard.c 1\n");
> if (splash_verbose())
> return;
> }
> #endif
Since it returns, the keycode probably wont't even be passed on to userspace?
Then everything is good.
> ---
>
> But I agree escape would be more senseable. So why is this an issue at
> all? Distribution which have bootsplash will have something like "press
> escape to abort" in their bootsplash theme anyway. So I don't think that
> the usual user likes to press the 'abort key' multiple times. If you like
> to see what's going on, just disable splash in the config file. And if
> something is going wrong during suspend, the escape key just drops
> bootsplash to verbose mode and you'll hopefully see the failure messages
> but then there's nothing to abort anymore anyway ;-)
Actually i often press escape to make splash verbose, to see what's going on
and maybe _why_ it is slow. _I_ would not like to abort suspend immediately
in this case :-)
And ideally, nobody should ever need to abort, but seeing "machine does
nothing for a minute", i press escape to get verbose screen. If i see it
is stuck writing sloooooowwwwww at 3%, then i press escape again to abort
suspend, fix it and then try again or shutdown :-)
Just to explain my use-case (you know, the "Alice" and "Bob" stuff :).
--
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."
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