Re: [git pull] fbcon locking fixes.

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> These patches have been sailing around long enough, waiting for a maintainer
>> to reappear, so I've decided enough is enough, lockdep is kinda useful to have.
>
> Last this was tried, these patches failed miserably.
>
> They caused instant lockdep splat and then a total lockup with efifb.
> It may be that Takashi's patch helps fix that problem, but it's in no
> way clear that it does, so the patch series isn't at all obviously
> stable.
>
> Yes, lockdep is indeed "kinda useful", and there clearly are locking
> problems in fbdev. But I'm not seeing myself pulling these for 3.8.
> They've been too problematic to pull in at this late stage.
>

Okay I'll fix the efifb problem and then maybe queue them for -next.

Dave.
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