On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay so Alan's patch handled the case where there was no registered fbcon, > however the other path entered in set_con2fb_map pit. > > In there we called fbcon_takeover, but we also took the console lock in a couple > of places. So push the console lock out to the callers of set_con2fb_map, > > this means fbmem and switcheroo needed to take the lock around the fb notifier > entry points that lead to this. > > This should fix the efifb regression seen by Maarten. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Linus might not be taking this for 3.8 because of lack of testing, but that doesn't mean the problems don't exist in 3.8 (and older). Maybe throw a CC for stable on the patch? That way it works its way back when it does get merged. josh -- 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
