Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> As far as I can remember, all fbdev operations are done under the
> console semaphore.

Yeah, and some of them are horribly broken (ie copying data from user 
space while doing it - causing horrible things like VC switching latencies 
and invisible printk's if an oops happens during the op).

Or maybe that got fixed. 

			Linus
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