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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
To: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:46:21 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0702071521340.29060@pademelon.sonytel.be> (raw)

If you don't have any builtin frame buffer device driver and insmod a frame
buffer device driver, the logo code will still try to display the logo (which
is __initdata). This may cause a crash.

Originally (2.1.x, is it that long ago I used a modular frame buffer device
driver?), this didn't happen because initmem_freed (which no longer exists) was
checked. BTW, there's still a comment in drivers/video/console/fbcon.c about
this.

Anyone else who's seeing this? Anyone with an idea how to fix this?
Moving the logo code to userspace is not considered a solution ;-)

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 14:46 Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2007-02-07 14:46 ` 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-02-08 16:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-08 16:12   ` Bill Davidsen

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