linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1510202110060.1573@local>
Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:04:22 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
cc:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, airlied@...hat.com,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling
 fb_set_par

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 15:08 +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
> > Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459
> >     fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt
> > 
> > a PPC64LE kernel fails to boot when fbcon_add_cursor_timer uses an
> > uninitialized ops->cur_blink_jiffies. Prevent by initializing
> > in fbcon_init before the call to info->fbops->fb_set_par.
> 
> Any reason that hasn't hit upstream (and stable) yet ? This is pretty
> major...

It's currently in the tty-linus branch of Greg's tty tree, so should be 
included in the next rc.
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