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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenfb: connect to backend before registering fb
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:45:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8F2392.8000101@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821154407.6337421b@leela>

On 08/21/09 06:44, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> As soon as the framebuffer is registered, our methods may be called by the
> kernel. This leads to a crash as xenfb_refresh() gets called before we have
> the irq.
>
> Connect to the backend before registering our framebuffer with the kernel.
>   

Thanks, applied.  Should this be backported to stable?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 10:40 DomU crashes during xenfb initialization Michal Schmidt
2009-08-21 13:09 ` Michal Schmidt
2009-08-21 13:13   ` Michal Schmidt
2009-08-21 13:44     ` [PATCH] xenfb: connect to backend before registering fb Michal Schmidt
2009-08-21 22:45       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-08-23 19:32         ` Michal Schmidt
2009-08-21 23:57 ` DomU crashes during xenfb initialization Morten P.D. Stevens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-27 19:22 [PATCH] xenfb: connect to backend before registering fb Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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