linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

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Message-Id: <200702060353.l163rUmj000771@zach-dev.vmware.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:53:30 -0800
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

Failure to use real-time delay here causes the keyboard to become demonically
possessed in the event of a kernel crash, with wildly blinking lights and
unpredictable behavior.  This has resulted in several injuries.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>

diff -r 10fac6d484e2 drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c	Tue Jan 30 16:44:54 2007 -0800
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c	Tue Jan 30 16:45:00 2007 -0800
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
  * the Free Software Foundation.
  */
+#define USE_REAL_TIME_DELAY
 
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
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