Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals

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On Fri, 20 May 2016, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Ming,
> 
> >Then looks there are two fix patches acked & tested:
> >
> > - the patch in this thread
> > - another one "[PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor
> >blink timer."
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/17/455
> >
> >So which one will be pushed to linus?
> 
> Not that it's my call, but we may want both; the first as a safety
> measure to prevent an invalid cur_blink_jiffies ever being set, and the
> second one to actually fix the initialisation of vc_cur_blink_ms (and
> address the warning introduced by the first).

Tomi / Greg,

I'd suggest
- applying "tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer." to 4.7 and stable[4.2]
- applying "fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals" to 4.7
- ignoring "fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid"

Note: the patches don't depend on each other


> I guess we could just go with the latter for stable...
>
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
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