On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Vito Caputo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I use Linux with the help of a braille display and the brltty daemon. It > > turns out that the latest mainline kernel I can work with comes from > > commit 231f8fd0cc. Anything past that and I lose the ability to read the > > console barely a few seconds after the system has booted as brltty is > > thrown a wrench and the braille display becomes completely inoperable. > > > > Things get somewhat better with commit c96cf923a9 as brltty is not > > longer incapacitated, but some programs would randomly crash. Even the > > very first login attempt won't work as I soon as I hit enter after my > > user name the password prompt is skipped over, just like if the enter > > key had been hit twice. Then lynx (the text web browser) would crash as > > soon as I switch the virtual console with LeftAlt+FN. Mind you, this > > isn't easy to perform bisection in those conditions. > > > > And the worst commit i.e. 83d817f410 is marked for stable! :-( > > This all sounds familiar, and I suspect this is the fix: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/8/1379
Yep, I confirm this patch did solve all my issues. Nicolas
