RE: [RFC][PATCH] omapfb: Condition mutex acquisition

Hunter, Jon
2009-09-29T14:43:58Z

Aguirre Rodriguez, Sergio Alberto wrote:
> And then, inside that function, an attempt of acquiring a
> mutex failed, because it wasn't initialized before trying it:
>
> mutex_lock(&fbi->mm_lock);

I would like to stress that this does cause the kernel to crash during boot up because this is mutex not initialised before it is used.

> BTW, this problem is found on current Linus tree, and in
> current l-o tree aswell, and i saw it on my 3430SDP VG5.0.1.

I am seeing this too on the beagle-board and so it appears to impact a few omap3 boards.

Cheers
Jon