Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752848Ab1EYSRK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 14:17:10 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:58188 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939Ab1EYSRJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 14:17:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110525181917.12cf97b8@neptune.home> References: <1306266871-12464-1-git-send-email-lxnay@sabayon.org> <20110524224545.08c53b1d@neptune.home> <20110525181917.12cf97b8@neptune.home> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:17:08 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PGMetK6cqJY9MO6TsnT8z-MkfgE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() and fb_open() From: Fabio Erculiani To: =?UTF-8?Q?Bruno_Pr=C3=A9mont?= Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 511 Lines: 13 I'm not a fbdev expert. So I leave the real fix to real men ( ;-) ). It is causing deadlock during boot, so I would consider it quite critical. Users using any fb driver will get into troubles. The workaround is to boot with vga=normal. Cheers, -- Fabio Erculiani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/