Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753441Ab1EYSln (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 14:41:43 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:56238 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752545Ab1EYSll (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 14:41:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=rzkZ4om09ZKgGGHVjH/IwCuxeeYp7sbPqZm6WTDWYoWPpiPy0pMLR2W3scLET81kfD 5uVWIljChxlhHOlDIosXVnpXZXBDwvl98SDCZggfy1aQABANhiGHbnkVgPfKPwg7+7aB OjwaBgXmDcskdym5UEmj0vew3fkzoXxJVgC+Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1306266871-12464-1-git-send-email-lxnay@sabayon.org> <20110524224545.08c53b1d@neptune.home> <20110525181917.12cf97b8@neptune.home> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:41:40 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() and fb_open() From: Anca Emanuel To: Fabio Erculiani Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 12 On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > 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. Did you test 2.6.39 ? The fix from Linus is not ok ? -- 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/