From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>

This gives keyboard a chance to work in text console so user can attempt to
exctract more useful data form crashed box (for example some backtraces
from SysRq)

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/input/serio/i8042.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x
+++ a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/vt_kern.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
@@ -831,6 +832,15 @@ static long i8042_panic_blink(long count
 	static char led;
 
 	/*
+	 * Only blink while in X because it messes up scrollback in console
+	 * preventing users to see the entire oops.
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE
+	if (vc_cons[fg_console].d->vc_mode != KD_GRAPHICS)
+		return 0;
+#endif
+
+	/*
 	 * We expect frequency to be about 1/2s. KDB uses about 1s.
 	 * Make sure they are different.
 	 */
_