> The fbdev potential for deadlock may be years old, but the warning > (and consequent disabling of lockdep from that point on - making it > useless to everybody else in need of it) is new, and comes from the > commit below in linux-next. > > I revert it in my own testing: if there is no quick fix to the > fbdev issue on the way, Daniel, please revert it from your tree. If you revert it you swap it for a different deadlock - and one that happens more often I would expect. Not very useful. I'm hoping the framebuffer maintainer will bother to respond to this because that's the only way it can be sorted out. 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