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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm: avoid switching to text console if there is no panic timeout
    On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:

    > From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>
    >
    > Add a check for panic_timeout in the drm_fb_helper_panic() notifier: if
    > we're going to reboot immediately, the user will not be able to see the
    > messages anyway, and messing with the video mode may display artifacts,
    > and certainly get into several layers of complexity (including mutexes and
    > memory allocations) which we shall be much safer to avoid.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    > [ Edited commit message and modified to short-circuit panic_timeout < 0
    > instead of testing panic_timeout >= 0. -Mandeep ]
    > Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
    > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
    > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org

    Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>


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