Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hellstr=F6m?= <thomas@shipmail.org>
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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 10:18 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:

> It would be very helpful if we could introduce an fbdev mutex that 
> protects fbdev accesses to the kernel map and to the fbdev acceleration 
> functions.

As far as I can remember, all fbdev operations are done under the
console semaphore.

(I know I did fix a bunch of that crap ages ago).

Cheers,
Ben.

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