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authorDaniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 19:47:52 -0700
commitf324edc85e5c1137e49e3b36a58cf436ab5b1fb3 (patch)
treefa9aa0d219c10e5db6e459c4ea64884135e93c03 /Documentation
parent4764e280dc7dde1534161e148d38dbd792a2b8ab (diff)
console: make blank timeout value a boot option
The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at runtime from userspace. This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0. The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl call - this just allows to conditionally change the default. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index ad380063077..5578248c18a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
console=brl,ttyS0
For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
+ consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
+ seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
+ disables the blank timer.
+
coredump_filter=
[KNL] Change the default value for
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.