From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753816AbYATLIW (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:08:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752398AbYATLIP (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:08:15 -0500 Received: from ananke.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.78]:59938 "EHLO ananke.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752029AbYATLIO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:08:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:08:11 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: devzero@web.de cc: mj@ucw.cz, Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: "problem" with mdacon In-Reply-To: <112492815@web.de> Message-ID: References: <112492815@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Roland, On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, devzero@web.de wrote: > sorry for contacting directly, but i was unsure about what list is best to ask questions for console specific stuff. > maybe linux-fbdev or linuxconsole-dev ? the latter looks dead - there is nothing but spam in the recent archive... I'd use linux-fbdev-devel and cc to lkml (already added). > ok - my "problem" (not being a real one, but not sure if this is a bug) > > if i do "modprobe mdacon" (without any options) the system console output freezes and takes no more keyboard input (no vt switching, too) > this happens on any real hardware and also in vmware. > > looks weird to me - is this expected behaviour ? > > i would have expected some "no such device or adress". > > found this by chance by some module load/unload stresstesting and there are not many modules which break my system when loading/unloading - mdacon is one of the very few... > > would be nice to get a comment about this. I think it should just complain with `mdacon: MDA card not detected.', if no MDA card is present. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds