From: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
To: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayon.org>
Cc: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer()
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:41:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Q5EzN+wP9jDNCxCnZBQ0XHOmOhQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimxi-LZFzwv=z6RRBCX098hr-ViUg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayon.org> wrote:
> I'm not a fbdev expert. So I leave the real fix to real men ( ;-) ).
> It is causing deadlock during boot, so I would consider it quite critical.
> Users using any fb driver will get into troubles.
> The workaround is to boot with vga=normal.
Did you test 2.6.39 ? The fix from Linus is not ok ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 19:54 [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() and fb_open() Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-24 20:45 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 16:19 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 18:17 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-25 18:41 ` Anca Emanuel [this message]
2011-05-25 18:48 ` Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-25 18:51 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 18:53 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-25 18:46 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 18:52 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-25 18:57 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 19:04 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Fabio Erculiani
2011-05-25 19:12 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between Bruno Prémont
2011-05-25 19:16 ` [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Fabio Erculiani
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