On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:11:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > But a deadlock we have lived with for years. Without reverting, > > we're prevented from discovering all the new deadlocks we're adding. > > We lived with it locking boxes up on users but not knowing why. Circa 3.5 we got a lot more reports of this happening too for some reason. Turns out that races are awfully resistant to bisecting too. > The root > cause is loading two different framebuffers with one taking over from > another - that should be an obscure corner case and once the fuzz testing > can avoid. > > I had a semi-informed poke at this and came up with a possible patch (not very tested) If this fixes the real problems we've been seeing, I'll dance a jig. Dave -- 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
