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 the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fbcon-initialize-blink-interval-before-calling-fb_set_par.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>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
From: Scot Doyle <lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f235f664a8afabccf863a5dee4777d2d7b676fda upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -1093,6 +1093,7 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *v
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);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/fbcon-initialize-blink-interval-before-calling-fb_set_par.patch
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