From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Daniel R Thompson <daniel.thompson@st.com>,
Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Subject: Re: backlight: oops in __mutex_lock_slowpath during head /sys/class/graphics/fb0/* in 2.6.18
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:02:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922160255.b97f2887.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060922112622.GA26724@aepfle.de>
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:26:22 +0200
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
>
> > What about the patch below? Does it work for you?
>
> Appears to work.
>
> tangerine:~ # head /sys/class/graphics/fb0/*
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/bits_per_pixel <==
> 8
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/bl_curve <==
> head: error reading `/sys/class/graphics/fb0/bl_curve': No such device
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank <==
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/console <==
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/cursor <==
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev <==
> 29:0
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/mode <==
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes <==
> U:832x624p-74
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/name <==
> valkyrie
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/pan <==
> 0,0
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate <==
> 0
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/state <==
> 0
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/stride <==
> 832
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/subsystem <==
> head: error reading `/sys/class/graphics/fb0/subsystem': Is a directory
> head: cannot open `/sys/class/graphics/fb0/uevent' for reading: Permission denied
>
> ==> /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size <==
> 832,624
Still looks like a bit of a mess, but I assume that's expected.
Michael, I take it that patch was final?
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2006-09-21 19:37 ` backlight: oops in __mutex_lock_slowpath during head /sys/class/graphics/fb0/* in 2.6.18 Andrew Morton
2006-09-21 21:56 ` Michael Hanselmann
2006-09-22 11:26 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-22 23:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-22 23:07 ` Michael Hanselmann
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