lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jan]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 2.5.59: Input subsystem initialised really late
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.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:32    [W:0.063 / U:0.088 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site