From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic_blink and i8042 unloading
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:14:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041107101435.GA2752@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411070134.31775.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:34:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At unload i8042 sets panic_blink to 0. This will cause problems if kernel
> panics later as it will just use it assuming that the pointer is correct.
>
> Please consider the patch below that checks if panic_blink is NULL right
> in panic() and sets it to no_blink instead.
Thanks, looks good.
-Andi
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2004-11-07 6:34 [PATCH] panic_blink and i8042 unloading Dmitry Torokhov
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