tty: Disable default console blanking interval
authorTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:07:20 +0000 (09:07 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:56:10 +0000 (16:56 +0200)
commita4199f5eb8096d63828f7333fa45650a7b0a99ed
tree5a72a8b3d406901c06724c8772761c342337b5c4
parentb2c663d155e1df81fa55287effac3b7115abc210
tty: Disable default console blanking interval

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869017
Console blanking is not enabling DPMS power saving (thereby negating any
power-saving benefit), and is simply turning the screen content blank. This
means that any crash output is invisible which is unhelpful on a server
(virtual or otherwise).

Furthermore, CRT burn in concerns should no longer govern the default case.
Affected users could always set consoleblank on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c