Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:13:59 -0700 | From | walt <> | Subject | Re: commit a802dd0e breaks console keyboard input |
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Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:52:57AM -0700, w41ter@gmail.com wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:09:24PM -0700, walt wrote: >>>> Hi team, >>>> >>>> commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635 >>>> Author: Heiko Carstens<heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> >>>> Date: Mon Oct 13 23:50:08 2008 +0200 >>>> >>>> Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls. >>>> >>>> This commit causes the console login prompt to ignore my keystrokes >>>> so I'm unable to log in (though ssh works fine). Oddly, if I hit >>>> ctrl-alt-delete the machine does reboot, but no other keystrokes >>>> appear on the screen or have any effect that I can detect...
> Please try the patch below. It basically reverts the whole stop_machine > patches. That way we should know if it really comes from the moved init > call or if it is some other weird bug. I would have expected more bug > reports if the stop_machine patches would be broken. Hmmm...
<second patch snipped for brevity>
Yes your second patch fixes the keyboard problem, thanks. The lack of other complainers is what made me think of a BIOS bug, but that's just wild guesswork on my part. I'm happy to keep trying patches if you can keep making them :-)
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