Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-20

[PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par

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From: Scot Doyle <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-09 15:08:15
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Subsystem: console subsystem, framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds

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.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alistair Popple <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 1aaf893..92f3949 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -1093,6 +1093,7 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *vc, int init)
 		con_copy_unimap(vc, svc);
 
 	ops = info->fbcon_par;
+	ops->cur_blink_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);
 	p->con_rotate = initial_rotation;
 	set_blitting_type(vc, info);
 
-- 
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