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Author SHA1 Message Date
Marcin Slusarz
def1be2d72 fbcon: don't inline updatescrollmode
Updatescrollmode is marked inline, but it's big and is called only from
non-critical codepaths (fbcon_resize, fbcon_switch, fbcon_modechanged).
Dropping it saves almost 800 bytes of text size.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  23859     287    8448   32594    7f52 drivers/video/console/fbcon.o.before
  23065     287    8448   31800    7c38 drivers/video/console/fbcon.o.after

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
232fb69a53 fbcon_set_all_vcs: fix kernel crash when switching the rotated consoles
echo 3 >> /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate_all, then switch to another
console. Result:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc20005d00000
	IP: [bitfill_aligned+149/265] bitfill_aligned+0x95/0x109
	PGD 7e228067 PUD 7e229067 PMD 7bc1f067 PTE 0
	Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
	CPU 1
	Modules linked in: [...a lot...]
	Pid: 10, comm: events/1 Not tainted 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64 #1
	RIP: 0010:[bitfill_aligned+149/265]  [bitfill_aligned+149/265] bitfill_aligned+0x95/0x109
	RSP: 0018:ffff81007d811bc8  EFLAGS: 00010216
	RAX: ffffc20005d00000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000400
	RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc20005d00000 RDI: ffffffffffffffff
	RBP: ffff81007d811be0 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000040
	R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000010000
	R13: ffffffff811632f0 R14: 0000000000000006 R15: ffff81007cb85400
	FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff81007e004780(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
	CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
	CR2: ffffc20005d00000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
	DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
	DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
	Process events/1 (pid: 10, threadinfo ffff81007d810000, task ffff81007d808000)
	Stack:  ffff81007c9d75a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff81007d811c80
	 ffffffff81163a61 ffff810000000000 ffffffff8115f9c8 0000001000000000
	 0000000100aaaaaa 000000007cd0d4a0 fffffd8a00000800 0001000000000000
	Call Trace:
	 [cfb_fillrect+523/798] cfb_fillrect+0x20b/0x31e
	 [soft_cursor+416/436] ? soft_cursor+0x1a0/0x1b4
	 [ccw_clear_margins+205/263] ccw_clear_margins+0xcd/0x107
	 [fbcon_clear_margins+59/61] fbcon_clear_margins+0x3b/0x3d
	 [fbcon_switch+1291/1466] fbcon_switch+0x50b/0x5ba
	 [redraw_screen+261/481] redraw_screen+0x105/0x1e1
	 [ccw_cursor+0/1869] ? ccw_cursor+0x0/0x74d
	 [complete_change_console+48/190] complete_change_console+0x30/0xbe
	 [change_console+115/120] change_console+0x73/0x78
	 [console_callback+0/292] ? console_callback+0x0/0x124
	 [console_callback+97/292] console_callback+0x61/0x124
	 [schedule_delayed_work+25/30] ? schedule_delayed_work+0x19/0x1e
	 [run_workqueue+139/282] run_workqueue+0x8b/0x11a
	 [worker_thread+221/238] worker_thread+0xdd/0xee
	 [autoremove_wake_function+0/56] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
	 [worker_thread+0/238] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xee
	 [kthread+73/118] kthread+0x49/0x76
	 [child_rip+10/18] child_rip+0xa/0x12
	 [kthread+0/118] ? kthread+0x0/0x76
	 [child_rip+0/18] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12

Because fbcon_set_all_vcs()->FBCON_SWAP() uses display->rotate == 0 instead
of fbcon_ops->rotate, and vc_resize() has no effect because it is called with
new_cols/rows == ->vc_cols/rows.

Tested on 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64, but
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git seems to
have the same problem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>	[2.6.27.x, 2.6.26.x, maybe 2.6.25.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz
5ab4840968 vgacon: vgacon_scrolldelta simplification
There's no point in checking diff == c->vc_rows, because it can be true
only when count == 0, but we already checked that.  Additionally move
variables used only in one block to this block.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz
c38182a713 vgacon: optimize scrolling
Join multiple scr_memcpyw into 1-3 calls (usually 2).  (benchmarked
average speedup: 1%)

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
77997aaadd device create: video: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
93f78da405 Revert "vt: fix background color on line feed"
This reverts commit c9e587abfd, and the
subsequent commits that fixed it up:

 - afa9b649 "fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512
   character font"

 - d850a2fa "vt/fbcon: fix background color on line feed"

 - 7fe3915a "vt/fbcon: update scrl_erase_char after 256/512-glyph font
   switch"

by request of Alan Cox. Quoth Alan:
  "Unfortunately it's wrong and its been causing breakages because
   various apps like ncurses expect our previous (and correct)
   behaviour."

Alexander sent out a similar patch.

Requested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@netis.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-14 12:12:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt
aef7db4bd5 fbdev: fix recursive notifier and locking when fbdev console is blanked
Fix infinite recursive notifier in the fbdev layer.  This causes recursive
locking.  Dmitry Baryshkov found the problem and confirmed that the patch
fixes the bug.

After doing
# echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank
I got the following in my kernel log:

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.27-rc6-00086-gda63874-dirty #97
---------------------------------------------
echo/1564 is trying to acquire lock:
 ((fb_notifier_list).rwsem){..--}, at: [<c005a384>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x6c

but task is already holding lock:
 ((fb_notifier_list).rwsem){..--}, at: [<c005a384>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x6c

other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by echo/1564:
 #0:  (&buffer->mutex){--..}, at: [<c00ddde0>] sysfs_write_file+0x30/0x80
 #1:  ((fb_notifier_list).rwsem){..--}, at: [<c005a384>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x6c

stack backtrace:
[<c0029fe4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c0060ce0>] (print_deadlock_bug+0xa4/0xd0)
[<c0060c3c>] (print_deadlock_bug+0x0/0xd0) from [<c0060e54>] (check_deadlock+0x148/0x17c)
 r6:c397a1e0 r5:c397a530 r4:c04fcf98
[<c0060d0c>] (check_deadlock+0x0/0x17c) from [<c00637e8>] (validate_chain+0x3c4/0x4f0)
[<c0063424>] (validate_chain+0x0/0x4f0) from [<c0063efc>] (__lock_acquire+0x5e8/0x6b4)
[<c0063914>] (__lock_acquire+0x0/0x6b4) from [<c006402c>] (lock_acquire+0x64/0x78)
[<c0063fc8>] (lock_acquire+0x0/0x78) from [<c0316ca8>] (down_read+0x4c/0x60)
 r7:00000009 r6:ffffffff r5:c0427a40 r4:c005a384
[<c0316c5c>] (down_read+0x0/0x60) from [<c005a384>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x6c)
 r5:c0427a40 r4:c0427a74
[<c005a34c>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x6c) from [<c005a3d8>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x28)
 r8:00000009 r7:c086d640 r6:c3967940 r5:00000000 r4:c38984b8
[<c005a3b8>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x28) from [<c014baa0>] (fb_notifier_call_chain+0x1c/0x24)
[<c014ba84>] (fb_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x24) from [<c014c18c>] (fb_blank+0x64/0x70)
[<c014c128>] (fb_blank+0x0/0x70) from [<c0155978>] (fbcon_blank+0x114/0x1bc)
 r5:00000001 r4:c38984b8
[<c0155864>] (fbcon_blank+0x0/0x1bc) from [<c0170ea8>] (do_blank_screen+0x1e0/0x2a0)
[<c0170cc8>] (do_blank_screen+0x0/0x2a0) from [<c0154024>] (fbcon_fb_blanked+0x74/0x94)
 r5:c3967940 r4:00000001
[<c0153fb0>] (fbcon_fb_blanked+0x0/0x94) from [<c0154228>] (fbcon_event_notify+0x100/0x12c)
 r5:fffffffe r4:c39bc194
[<c0154128>] (fbcon_event_notify+0x0/0x12c) from [<c005a0d4>] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x7c)
[<c005a09c>] (notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x7c) from [<c005a3a0>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x6c)
 r8:c3b51ea0 r7:00000009 r6:ffffffff r5:c0427a40 r4:c0427a74
[<c005a34c>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x6c) from [<c005a3d8>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x28)
 r8:00000001 r7:c3a7e000 r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:c38984b8
[<c005a3b8>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x28) from [<c014baa0>] (fb_notifier_call_chain+0x1c/0x24)
[<c014ba84>] (fb_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x24) from [<c014c18c>] (fb_blank+0x64/0x70)
[<c014c128>] (fb_blank+0x0/0x70) from [<c014e450>] (store_blank+0x54/0x7c)
 r5:c38984b8 r4:c3b51ec4
[<c014e3fc>] (store_blank+0x0/0x7c) from [<c017981c>] (dev_attr_store+0x28/0x2c)
 r8:00000001 r7:c042bf80 r6:c39eba10 r5:c3967c30 r4:c38e0140
[<c01797f4>] (dev_attr_store+0x0/0x2c) from [<c00ddaac>] (flush_write_buffer+0x54/0x68)
[<c00dda58>] (flush_write_buffer+0x0/0x68) from [<c00dde08>] (sysfs_write_file+0x58/0x80)
 r8:c3b51f78 r7:c3bcb070 r6:c39eba10 r5:00000001 r4:00000001
[<c00dddb0>] (sysfs_write_file+0x0/0x80) from [<c009de04>] (vfs_write+0xb8/0x148)
[<c009dd4c>] (vfs_write+0x0/0x148) from [<c009e384>] (sys_write+0x44/0x70)
 r7:00000004 r6:c3bcb070 r5:00000000 r4:00000000
[<c009e340>] (sys_write+0x0/0x70) from [<c0025d00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
 r6:4001b000 r5:00000001 r4:401dc658

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Testted-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:17 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f68ec0c247 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into x86/setup 2008-10-03 19:28:46 +02:00
David Winn
08650869e0 fbcon: fix monochrome color value calculation
Commit 22af89aa0c ("fbcon: replace mono_col
macro with static inline") changed the order of operations for computing
monochrome color values.  This generates 0xffff000f instead of 0x0000000f
for a 4 bit monochrome color, leading to image corruption if it is passed
to cfb_imageblit or other similar functions.  Fix it up.

Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a57a5c2e8d x86 setup: remove remnants of CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT (read: vga=)
Impact: cleanup

Video mode selection became always possible in 2.6.23-rc1 after i386 setup
code rewrite in C.

Regardless, VIDEO_SELECT is stupid config option because it affects only
kernel setup code, not code which always stays in memory.

vga= always possible now which is good.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-03 14:12:39 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
afa9b649aa fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512 character font
Adjust and honor the vc_scrl_erase_char for 256 and 512 character fonts.

It fixes the issue with disappearing cursor during scrolling
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11258).  The issue was
reported and tracked by Peter Hanzel.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Peter Hanzel <hanzelpeter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3838f59fc2 Revert "fbcon: bgcolor fix"
This reverts commit 2d04a4a72d, which made
it impossible to make the softcursor use the highlight colors.

Yes, the fourth bit should be "blinking", but since we cannot reasonably
blink in fbcon, highlighting it with a bright background is preferable.

Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-11 10:29:11 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
c213ddf330 fbcon: fix scrolling after logo is cleared
If the 'clear' command is used on the frame buffer with a logo the upper
area is filled by few lines but not scrolled anymore.

Fix this by removing the protected area for the logo if any part of the
logo is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d9c566198b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: Do not clobber %g7 in setcontext() trap.
  sparc64: Kill __show_regs().
  sparc: Add __KERNEL__ ifdef protection to pt_regs helpers.
  sparc64: Kill smp_report_regs().
  sparc64: Kill VERBOSE_SHOWREGS code.
  sparc64: Hook up trigger_all_cpu_backtrace().
  sparc64: Make global reg dumping even more useful.
  sparc: Ignore drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c conmakehash generated file
  sparc64: FUTEX_OP_ANDN fix
  sparc: merge of_platform_{32,64}.h
  sparc64: Kill isa_bus_type.
  sparc64: Fix global reg snapshotting on self-cpu.
2008-08-02 09:14:23 -07:00
Florian Fainelli
c9b23e0c30 sparc: Ignore drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c conmakehash generated file
Add drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c to the list of ignored files.
This file is generated by conmakehash against drivers/video/console/prom.uni.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-30 16:49:52 -07:00
Helge Deller
fdac4e69a1 sticore: don't activate unsupported GSC STI cards on HPPA
On HPPA there exists some older GSC graphics cards, which need special
graphic-card-BIOS patching to become supported.  Since we don't have yet
implemented the patching, it's better to detect such cards in advance,
inform to the user that there are known problems and to not activate the
card.

Problematic GSC cards and BIOS versions are:
* Hyperdrive/Hyperbowl (A4071A) graphics card series:
   * ID = 0x2BCB015A (Version 8.04/8)
   * ID = 0x2BCB015A (Version 8.04/11)
* Thunder 1 VISUALIZE 48 card:
   * ID = 0x2F23E5FC (Version 8.05/9)
* Thunder 2 VISUALIZE 48 XP card:
   * ID = 0x2F8D570E (Version 8.05/12)
* Some Hyperion and ThunderHawk GSC cards

Further details are described here:
http://parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:43 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
3d1e412ac5 video/console/stico{n,re}.c: make code static
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static:
 - sticon.c: sticonsole_init()
 - sticore.c: struct default_sti
 - sticore.c: sti_init_graph()
 - sticore.c: sti_inq_conf()
 - sticore.c: sti_rom_copy()
 - sticore.c: sti_select_fbfont()
 - sticore.c: sti_select_font()
 - sticore.c: sti_get_wmode_rom()
 - sticore.c: sti_read_rom()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
Jan Beulich
cba603bf51 fbcon: remove stray semicolons
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:41 -07:00
Stefano Stabellini
2d04a4a72d fbcon: bgcolor fix
The fourth bit of the background color is the blink property bit, not the
intensity bit, as for the foreground color.  Therefore it shouldn't be
included in the background color.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:41 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
49a1d28f57 fbcon: make logo_height a local variable
Make logo_height variable local in the only function it is used.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:37 -07:00
Roland Kletzing
0b9cf3aa6b mdacon messing up default vc's - set default to vc13-16 again
mdacon incorrectly detects MDA hardware on systems without such graphics card.

One may load this module by chance, for example when doing some systematical
module-testing, and if there is no Monochrome Display Adapter attached ,
module init renders vc1-16 completely unusable.

I and others have run into this more than once.  see [Bug 224522 - modprobe
mdacon freezes machine -> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224522 ]
for example

Apparently  proper MDA detection seems to be broken for a long time - seems to
be related to those #ifdef TEST_MDA_B statements added by Edward Betts.

this commit back in 2002 made things even worse :
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commit;h=c72757b49c88914433244757fb4967fc63546685

It changed default vc allocation from 13-16 to 1-16 for no apparent reason
(!?) , and with that (and without X), mdacon grabs the vc you`re currently
sitting on and locks you out.

this is from Kconfig :
>config MDA_CONSOLE
>        depends on !M68K && !PARISC && ISA
>        tristate "MDA text console (dual-headed) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>        ---help---
>          Say Y here if you have an old MDA or monochrome Hercules graphics
>          adapter in your system acting as a second head ( = video card). You
>          will then be able to use two monitors with your Linux system. Do not
>          say Y here if your MDA card is the primary card in your system; the
>          normal VGA driver will handle it.

As we can see mdacon is just meant as an additional driver for dual-head
setup, and since kernel 2.4.36 still defaults to vc13-16 , setting the default
back to that value again shouldn`t do any harm.

Hereby i'm reverting that change, setting default back to to vc13-16 again.

Besides the fact that mdacon may be rarely or never be used these days and
could perhaps put to trash anyway (pre-dinosaur hardware!), indeed this is not
a real solution, but at least it removes the unfortunate side-effect of
messing up the vc you`re working on.

Signed-off-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:36 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1e2744011f device create: framebuffer: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:42 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
10732c35df fbcon: fix wrong vmode bits copied on console switch
The interlaced and double line mode bits should not be copied to new
console when the console is switched.  Otherwise, the new console may be
set to incorrect refresh rate.

Also, the x and y offsets does not need to be copied.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:29:11 -07:00