Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:18:57PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This is the 4th one of these I've seen in the last two days. Any chance
>> of being able to compile with -g and get an addr2line on the EIP? I've
>> tried to reproduce it myself, but haven't gotten it to happen yet.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:32:08PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> seems fairly obvious what's happening with a couple of printks...
> printk("visual_init: sw = %p, conswitchp = %p, currcons = %d, init = %d\n",
>                     sw, conswitchp, currcons, init);
> gets me the interesting fact that sw & conswitchp are both NULL.
> later on, we call:
>     sw->con_init(vc_cons[currcons].d, init);
> which seems like it would be the exact cause, no?

Ugh, I should have been able to see this somehow...

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:32:08PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> now whether putting a:
> 	if (!sw)
> 		return;
> call into visual_init or whether we should determine earlier never to
> call visual_init, I don't know.  The people who know about the console
> have been conspicuously silent so far...

To heck with waiting for them, if you can't boot because of it, I'd say
push the patch.


Cheers,
Bill