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SubjectRe: [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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