andy git 06/15 suspend/resume observations

[Werner Almesberger]

Interesting ... how did that paste creep in ? :-(

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> From: Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>
> To: "Mike (mwester)" <mwester at dls.net>
> Cc: Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com>, openmoko-kernel at lists.openmoko.org
> Bcc:
> Subject: Re: andy git 06/15 suspend/resume observations
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> In-Reply-To: <485ADAE5.6020509 at dls.net>
> 
> Mike (mwester) wrote:
> > horrible mess, and its so incredibly frustrating to think that there had
> > to have been a meeting at Openmoko/FIC at one point, where SOMEBODY
> > could have said one sentence and had the GSM/console mux changed to
> > GPS/console -- and the grief that would have solved is immeasurable.
> 
> Well, the sharing was already there for I don't know how long when I
> joined. I think it wouldn't actually have been so bad if the following
> two decisions had been made regarding the overall GSM software
> interface:
> 
> - gsmd can be device-specific
>   Thus it is aware of the hardware quirks, and is responsible for
>   orchestrating the switch between console and GSM, etc.
> 
> - if GSM is in use, we don't try to still get printks
>   Thus gsmd could simply turn them off through /proc/sys/kernel/printk
>   (and the low-level debug code would have to go)
> 
> Of course, hindsight is always 20/20 :-)
> 
> - Werner
>