From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:53:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [git pull] fbcon locking fixes. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dave Airlie Cc: Andrew Morton , DRI mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > > These patches have been sailing around long enough, waiting for a maintainer > to reappear, so I've decided enough is enough, lockdep is kinda useful to have. Last this was tried, these patches failed miserably. They caused instant lockdep splat and then a total lockup with efifb. It may be that Takashi's patch helps fix that problem, but it's in no way clear that it does, so the patch series isn't at all obviously stable. Yes, lockdep is indeed "kinda useful", and there clearly are locking problems in fbdev. But I'm not seeing myself pulling these for 3.8. They've been too problematic to pull in at this late stage. Linus