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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:54:16 +0000
Subject: Re: 3.8-rc2 lockdep complains about console_lock vs. fb_notifier_list.rwsem
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:42:46 -0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> > FWIW, Andrew took my patch in mm:
> >   http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover.patch
> >   http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-yet-another-band-aid-for-fixing-lockdep-mess.patch
> 
> 
> Ok, so, which one should I take for 3.8?  And ideally the fb maintainer
> should do this, not I, right?

Please see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fbdev/msg08954.html

Tomi might be able to review the above for us.  I think we need both. 
If nothing else happens I intend to send both Linuswards for 3.8 in a
week or two.