On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Okay I've just sent out another fbcon patch to fix the locking harder. There was a path going into set_con2fb_path if an fb driver was already registered, I just pushed the locking out further on anyone going in there. it boots on my EFI macbook here. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
