Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 02:37:31 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Little console problem in 2.5.30 |
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Hi, all:
I would appreciate if someone would explain me if the attached patch does the right thing. The problem is that I do not use the framebuffer, and use a serial console. Whenever a legacy /sbin/init tries to open /dev/tty0, the system oopses dereferencing conswitchp in visual_init().
-- Pete
diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.5.30-sp_pbk/drivers/char/console.c linux-2.5.30-sparc/drivers/char/console.c --- linux-2.5.30-sp_pbk/drivers/char/console.c Thu Aug 1 14:16:34 2002 +++ linux-2.5.30-sparc/drivers/char/console.c Sun Aug 18 23:14:20 2002 @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */ { - if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES) + if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES || conswitchp == NULL) return -ENXIO; if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) { long p, q; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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