Re: commit a802dd0e breaks console keyboard input

[walt]

Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:52:57AM -0700, w41ter@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:09:24PM -0700, walt wrote:
> > > > Hi team,
> > > >
> > > > commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635
> > > > Author: Heiko Carstens<heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date:   Mon Oct 13 23:50:08 2008 +0200
> > > >
> > > >      Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.
> > > >
> > > > This commit causes the console login prompt to ignore my keystrokes
> > > > so I'm unable to log in (though ssh works fine).  Oddly, if I hit
> > > > ctrl-alt-delete the machine does reboot, but no other keystrokes
> > > > appear on the screen or have any effect that I can detect...

> Please try the patch below. It basically reverts the whole stop_machine
> patches. That way we should know if it really comes from the moved init
> call or if it is some other weird bug. I would have expected more bug
> reports if the stop_machine patches would be broken. Hmmm...

<second patch snipped for brevity>

Yes your second patch fixes the keyboard problem, thanks.  The lack of
other complainers is what made me think of a BIOS bug, but that's just
wild guesswork on my part.  I'm happy to keep trying patches if you can
keep making them :-)
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