This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From f235f664a8afabccf863a5dee4777d2d7b676fda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scot Doyle <lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:08:10 +0000
Subject: fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par
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 <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v4.2]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 1aaf89300621..92f394927f24 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);
--
2.6.1
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