Re: [Bug 14662] drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:26 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I'm slightly worried by this patch which went into Linus's git yesterday.
> 
> Thank you for looking into the issue, and coming up with what Mateusz
> has found to be a good workaround.
> 
> But is it the right fix?

This really does look like a band-aid. There's either a real problem in
tiny-shmem or alternately something scribbling on its aops? In which
case turning shmem on is just causing something different to get
scribbled on.

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