tty: Disable default console blanking interval

rtg-canonical · gregkh · commit a4199f5eb809 · 2017-03-31T16:56:10.000+02:00
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>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int console_blanked;
 
 static int vesa_blank_mode; /* 0:none 1:suspendV 2:suspendH 3:powerdown */
 static int vesa_off_interval;
-static int blankinterval = 10*60;
+static int blankinterval;
 core_param(consoleblank, blankinterval, int, 0444);
 
 static DECLARE_WORK(console_work, console_callback);
