David Rientjes (rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> >
> > > From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Add a check for panic_timeout in the drm_fb_helper_panic() notifier: if
> > > we're going to reboot immediately, the user will not be able to see the
> > > messages anyway, and messing with the video mode may display artifacts,
> > > and certainly get into several layers of complexity (including mutexes and
> > > memory allocations) which we shall be much safer to avoid.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > [ Edited commit message and modified to short-circuit panic_timeout < 0
> > > instead of testing panic_timeout >= 0. -Mandeep ]
> > > Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> Dave, where do we stand on this? I haven't seen it hit Linus' tree and I
> don't see it in git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux.
The last status I have is Andrew pulling it into mmotm on 10/18/11.
Subject: + drm-avoid-switching-to-text-console-if-there-is-no-panic-timeout.patch added to -mm tree
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:42:46 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: drm: avoid switching to text console if there is no panic timeout
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drm-avoid-switching-to-text-console-if-there-is-no-panic-timeout.patch
Where is mmotm hosted these days?
Regards,
Mandeep
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