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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:24:25 +0800
From: "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  Any progress on this?
>
>  Considering that fb_defio is utterly broken without the fix (writing
>  the frame buffer makes the VM endlessly invoke vm_ops.page_mkwrite()),
>  wouldn't it make sense to merge the fix even if it still has issues?
>

Yes, Andrew has merged the fix into -mm. I see it in mmotm

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fbdev-defio-and-metronomefb-v4.patch

Thanks,
jaya
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