On 11/09/2012 02:34 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Alan Cox wrote: >> commit f35b3fbf24c4e4debb6a7a864b09854ccc2a22e7 >> Author: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Nov 7 16:35:08 2012 +0000 >> >> fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover >> >> Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller already >> holds the locks. Make the fb layer lock in order. >> >> This s partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the >> locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This version works for me too - thanks. > Hugh I was planning to test it last night, but new code in mm/ failed horribly and was BUG()ing all over the place, so I didn't get any significant testing of this patch done. Will update... Thanks, Sasha -- 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
