From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anca Emanuel Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:41:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer() Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1306266871-12464-1-git-send-email-lxnay@sabayon.org> <20110524224545.08c53b1d@neptune.home> <20110525181917.12cf97b8@neptune.home> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fabio Erculiani Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Fabio Erculiani 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 ?