From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:06:03 +0000 Subject: Re: 3.8-rc2: EFI framebuffer lock inversion... Message-Id: <20130103120603.6f8e94a7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Id: References: <20130103131156.214bd7a5@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Daniel J Blueman , Peter Jones , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" , nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Linux Kernel , Florian Tobias Schandinat On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:40:47 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > The fb layer locking was broken. I posted patches early December which > > should have fixed the ones we know about. ('fb: Rework locking to fix > > lock ordering on takeover'). > > That patch causes compile errors with "allmodconfig": > > ERROR: "do_take_over_console" [drivers/video/console/fbcon.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > Hmm? I have a couple of fixes against fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover.patch: http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover-fix.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover-fix-2.patch Florian has been busy for a month or two - I've been waiting for him to reappear to consider this patch.