Re: sudo oops on mips64 linux_2_4

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > >  At least we know the error is in drivers/video/fbmem.c:fbmem_read_proc() 
> > 
> > and at least we know there is something wrong. why is fbmem compiled in
> > at all?
> 
>  Well, that's not wrong per se and is actually valid at least for
> CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL.  And the code should fail gracefully if there nothing
> useful to do.

You do not want to set CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL=y, since the virtual frame buffer
device is meant for testing only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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