Re: [stable] fbcon: fix locking harder

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 02:26:07AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 02:24 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 03:28 +0400, Stepan Golosunov wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The relevant changes in 3.2.40 (
> > > fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover,
> > > fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess;
> > > described in
> > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-January/033976.html)
> > > appear to be missing from debian/changelog.
> > 
> > Yes, maybe I should make it more clear that not all commits are listed
> > in the Debian changelog (there are just too many).  I try to list
> > everything that looks like it could be release-critical - data loss,
> > security vulnerabilities, and major regressions.
> > 
> > > And the missing fix (fbcon: fix locking harder) was discussed in
> > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-January/033980.html.
> > > 
> > > Any of the two attached patches makes 3.2.41-2 bootable here.
> > 
> > I think we should move forward rather than back.  So that's:
> > 
> > commit 054430e773c9a1e26f38e30156eff02dedfffc17
> > Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri Jan 25 11:38:56 2013 +1000
> > 
> >     fbcon: fix locking harder
> [...]
> 
> So I've queued this up for 3.2, but I think it belongs in 3.0 and 3.4 as
> well.

Yep, makes sense to me.  Its on 3.5 already.  Thanks Ben.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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