Re: matroxfb console oops in 2.4.2x

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:09:18 +0100


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 20:45, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> This one is culprit. If you'll comment this message out, it will not
> crash.

As discussed, this is true but if anyone _else_ happens to call printk
during the same period, it'll still crash.

Matroxfb is registering a screen for which it's not yet willing to
attempt output -- and taking out this printk only serves to fix the
coincidence which makes it 100% reproducible -- the thing is still
broken without that printk.

-- 
dwmw2

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