From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:55:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:54:46 -0400 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:3085 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:54:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA5822E.72376A1E@zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:55:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-ac10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Schroeder CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in console driver? In-Reply-To: <20010916.13320600@sirius.imsch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -