linux-kernel - Re: tty-related oops in latest kernel(s)?

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 07:17:27 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Tero Roponen <teanropo@....fi>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: tty-related oops in latest kernel(s)?

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 19:01 +0300, Tero Roponen wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:02:49 +0300 (EEST) Tero Roponen <teanropo@....fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 5/30/07, Tero Roponen <teanropo@....fi> wrote:

> 
> after some trial and error I found a simple way to trigger the
> corruption:
> 

BTW, that was impressive.  You exposed a long-standing bug in neofb,
thanks.

And just FYI, you can also trigger it by doing fbset -depth 24.

Tony 


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