The patch titled
i8042: activate panic blink only in X
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
------------------------------------------------------
Subject: i8042: activate panic blink only in X
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This gives keyboard a chance to work in text console so user can attempt to
exctract more useful data form crashed box (for example some backtraces
from SysRq)
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x
+++ a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -831,6 +832,15 @@ static long i8042_panic_blink(long count
static char led;
/*
+ * Only blink while in X because it messes up scrollback in console
+ * preventing users to see the entire oops.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE
+ if (vc_cons[fg_console].d->vc_mode != KD_GRAPHICS)
+ return 0;
+#endif
+
+ /*
* We expect frequency to be about 1/2s. KDB uses about 1s.
* Make sure they are different.
*/
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-acpi.patch
git-dvb.patch
git-input.patch
input-i8042-get-rid-of-polling-timer.patch
input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking.patch
i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x.patch
ucb1x00-ts-handle-errors-from-input_register_device.patch
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
