linux/drivers
Antonino Daplas 4d8a2d986d fbcon: delay the start of the cursor timer until a con_switch()
As reported in Bugzilla Bug 9093, upon switching to X, a small rectangular
cursor can still be seen blinking in the upper left part of the screen.  It is
fbcon's text cursor.  This is caused by a strange ioctl(..., KDSETMODE,
KD_TEXT) call done by something in userspace, perhaps by X itself, while the
tty is still in graphics mode.  And when the tty is in KD_TEXT mode, the
cursor timer is restarted.

Although this is a userspace problem, we can work around it by delaying the
restart of the cursor timer until an fbcon_switch() is called.  In other
words, the cursor timer will not be restarted even if a KD_TEXT mode switch is
requested.

Regression potential: Present but low

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:23 -07:00
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acorn/char
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ata docbook: fix libata content 2007-10-15 17:56:36 -07:00
atm more trivial signedness fixes in drivers 2007-10-14 12:41:52 -07:00
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crypto [CRYPTO] sha: Add header file for SHA definitions 2007-10-10 16:55:50 -07:00
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edac Drivers: clean up direct setting of the name of a kset 2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
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hid HID: fix HIDIOCGRDESC memory access in hidraw 2007-10-15 08:12:00 -07:00
hwmon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2007-10-15 13:41:39 -07:00
i2c Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2007-10-15 16:08:50 -07:00
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infiniband IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send 2007-10-15 14:20:45 -04:00
input Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2007-10-15 16:08:50 -07:00
isdn isdn: guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer() 2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
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leds [ARM] 4576/1: CM-X270 machine support 2007-10-15 18:53:57 +01:00
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mca
md dm: emc_endio returns void 2007-10-13 09:41:03 -07:00
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nubus
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oprofile
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pnp drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals 2007-10-09 20:22:20 -04:00
power Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct 2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
ps3 ps3fb: default to 480p on DVI-D/HDMI if video=safe 2007-10-16 09:43:22 -07:00
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rtc rtc: allow validated RTC_PIE_ON for non-root 2007-10-16 09:43:13 -07:00
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sbus
scsi scsi/gdth: fix crash in gdth_timeout if no gdth controllers found 2007-10-15 12:46:16 -07:00
serial tty: bring the old cris driver back somewhere into the realm of new tty buffering 2007-10-16 09:43:04 -07:00
sh sh: Add maple bus support for the SEGA Dreamcast. 2007-09-21 15:55:55 +09:00
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tc
telephony
uio
usb vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspace 2007-10-16 09:43:20 -07:00
video fbcon: delay the start of the cursor timer until a con_switch() 2007-10-16 09:43:23 -07:00
w1 Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct 2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
xen
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Makefile DCA: Add Direct Cache Access driver 2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00