From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Michael Schroeder <mdhs@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in console driver?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:55:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA5822E.72376A1E@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010916.13320600@sirius.imsch.de>
Michael Schroeder wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I suppose there is a bug in the 2.4-kernel console driver
> (../drivers/char/console.c).
>
> It seems that (if there is a slow video device) this driver disables the
> handling of interrupts while writing or switching the consoles.
>
Yup. This was fixed in -ac kernels a few months ago. We're working
on a merge into Linus' kernels at present - it's still a fairly large
patch though.
The latest diff (against 2.4.10-pre10) is at
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/2.4.10-pre10-no-console-lock-2.patch
Could you please test it?
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2001-09-16 13:32 Bug in console driver? Michael Schroeder
2001-09-17 4:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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