linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbcon: unconditionally initialize cursor blink interval

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Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:21:38 +0300
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
CC:	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Jonathan Liu <net147@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: unconditionally initialize cursor blink interval



On 10/08/15 17:05, Scot Doyle wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Tue 2015-08-04 12:33:32, Scot Doyle wrote:
>>> A sun7i-a20-olinuxino-micro fails to boot when kernel parameter
>>> vt.global_cursor_default=0. The value is copied to vc->vc_deccm
>>> causing the initialization of ops->cur_blink_jiffies to be skipped.
>>> Unconditionally initialize it.
>>>
>>> Reported-and-tested-by: Jonathan Liu <net147@...il.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>>
> 
> Tomi, this one should also go in 4.2 fixes.

Thanks, I've queued for 4.2 fixes.

 Tomi


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