Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Failure to use real-time delay here causes the keyboard to become demonically
> possessed in the event of a kernel crash, with wildly blinking lights and
> unpredictable behavior.  This has resulted in several injuries.

There must be a reason why it wasn't default before. Has this
reason changed?

-Andi

> 
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r 10fac6d484e2 drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
> --- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c	Tue Jan 30 16:44:54 2007 -0800
> +++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c	Tue Jan 30 16:45:00 2007 -0800
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>   * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
>   * the Free Software Foundation.
>   */
> +#define USE_REAL_TIME_DELAY
>  
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
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