Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] vt: fix console lock vs. kernfs s_active lock order

[Peter Hurley]

On 12/16/2014 11:22 AM, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 10:00 -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:

>> Fine. Just another expedient fix piled on top of other expedient fixes
>> that go back past 3.9 with no end in sight.
> 
> I'm also happy to look into narrowing down the scope of console_lock in
> fbdev/fbcon as was suggested. But doing that as a follow-up to this
> change still makes sense to me since it will take more time and have the
> risk of regressions that are not related to what this change fixes.

I apologize for my tone. I'm not blaming you for the current situation,
nor is it your responsibility to go fix vt/fbcon/fbdev driver stack
inversion. I'm just trying to bring some awareness of the larger scope,
so that collectively we take action and resolve the underlying problems.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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