Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:44:47 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.59: Input subsystem initialised really late |
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:56:51PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> It appears to be impossible to get a SysRQ-T dump out of a kernel which > has hung during (eg) the SCSI initialisation with 2.5. > > Unlike previous 2.4 kernels, the keyboard is no longer initialised until > fairly late - after many of the other drivers have initialised. > Unfortunately, this means that it is quite difficult to debug these hangs > (we'll leave discussion about in-kernel debuggers for another time!) > > Can we initialise the input subsystem earlier (eg, after pci bus > initialisation, before disks etc) so that we do have the ability to use > the SysRQ features?
I think this should be possible, yes.
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