On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:51:24PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> joerg@britannica.bec.de said:
> > The only device the X server has native access to is the PCI device
> > and wsdisplay is a child of that.
> 
> By "I/O devices" I thought of keyboard/mouse/tablet/joystick
> which it accesses through their own drivers.

Not from the display driver path. The X server still keeps permissions
for them. It just has to stop direct access to VGA registers./

> > A setup where no text mode VT is present is IMO broken
> 
> I don't think so. There are many ways to set up a system,
> in particular for embedded/mobile use.

Your patch introduced a regression. Now a user no longer gets any hint
if a suspend broke or the resume died in the middle of the process.

Joerg