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

From: Jeremy Kerr
Date: Thu May 19 2016 - 21:22:11 EST


Hi Scot,

> Two systems are locking on boot [1] because ops->cur_blink_jiffies
> is set to zero from vc->vc_cur_blink_ms.
>
> Ignore such invalid intervals and log a warning.

This prevents a lockup on AST BMC machines, but (as expected) generates
a warning against the fbcon driver, which is a significantly better
result.

Tested-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>

[now to sort out the issue in the ast driver...]

Cheers,


Jeremy