Re: [PATCH -ac] Panicking in morse code v3

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> Otherwise it becomes a "toy" feature that doesn't have much value.
> What would be more useful would be to disable the console blank
> timer on a panic() so it doesn't blank half-way through someone
> reading the oops, leaving them with no way to read the rest of it!

I actually thought of that last night when it happened whilst examining an 
oops.

--- linux-2.5.25/kernel/panic.c.orig	Sun Jul 21 12:45:56 2002
+++ linux-2.5.25/kernel/panic.c	Sun Jul 21 12:09:42 2002
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
         unsigned long caller = (unsigned long) __builtin_return_address(0);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VT
+	disable_console_blank();
+#endif
 	bust_spinlocks(1);
 	va_start(args, fmt);
 	vsprintf(buf, fmt, args);
--- linux-2.5.25/drivers/char/console.c.orig	Sun Jul 21 12:46:18 2002
+++ linux-2.5.25/drivers/char/console.c	Sun Jul 21 12:24:31 2002
@@ -2758,6 +2758,12 @@
 	timer_do_blank_screen(0, 1);
 }
 
+void disable_console_blank(void)
+{
+	del_timer_sync(&console_timer);
+	blankinterval = 0;
+}
+
 void poke_blanked_console(void)
 {
 	del_timer(&console_timer);
--- linux-2.5.25/include/linux/console.h.orig	Sun Jul 21 12:47:01 2002
+++ linux-2.5.25/include/linux/console.h	Sun Jul 21 12:25:42 2002
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
 extern void release_console_sem(void);
 extern void console_conditional_schedule(void);
 extern void console_unblank(void);
+extern void disable_console_blank(void);
 
 /* VESA Blanking Levels */
 #define VESA_NO_BLANKING        0

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