On Thursday, July 12, 2018 09:29:38 AM Steven Rostedt wrote: > > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when > the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is > not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to > fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver. > > There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before > git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays > anyway. > > Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can > be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging. > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@xxxxxxx > Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Patch queued for 4.19, thanks. Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics -- 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
