On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... Nothing complains anywhere, looks great. 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
