On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:05:35 +0200 Bruno Prémont <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:50:10 Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any ideas on how best to address this issue [0], since it causes > > silent corruption, or at best crashes? > > There is probably no easy short-term fix to this... The short term fix would be to deliberately leak the buffer. That should go into 2.6.39-rc right now with a comment explaining the situation. Otherwise who knows what corruption may occur to user data if unlucky. The other 'cheat' might be to tweak the API so the removal API isn't a 'destroy' interface but a 'shut down' and has a matching 'restart' one for when the intelfb unloads at which point vga16fb can carry on with the original fb_info 8) Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
