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From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Florian Tobias Schandinat <florianSchandinat@gmx.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:06:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E81763.1070501@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130105120729.7677c333@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>

Am 05.01.2013 13:07, schrieb Alan Cox:
>> So to add such an "I am crap" flag my idea would be to add an
>> .fb_handle_damage to struct fb_ops and then call that (if exists)
>> whenever something was changed.
>
> I was thinking much higher level - ie at the printk kind of level
>
>> My patch (for udlfb) follows as an reply to this message. If that patch
>> is ok, it should be applied to smscufx too (I would make it). In regard
>> to udl I don't know, I haven't had a deeper look at it nor used it up to
>> now.
>
> Looks pretty clean as a solution to me.

Thanks and sorry for the two empty lines in the patch. I swear I had a 
look at the patch before sending it out, but haven't seen them.

So should I make the same patch for smscufx  and while beeing there, 
send out at v2 without those 2 empty lines?

Regards,

Alexander



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-05 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-16 19:27 [PATCH] fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover Alan Cox
2012-11-21 12:45 ` Josh Boyer
2012-11-21 12:53   ` Alan Cox
2012-12-18 15:20     ` Josh Boyer
2012-12-25 16:08       ` Sasha Levin
2012-12-26  2:41         ` Cong Wang
2012-12-26 18:09           ` Sasha Levin
2012-12-27  4:53             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-28 11:50               ` Shawn Guo
2012-12-28 12:40                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-04 12:50                   ` Alexander Holler
2013-01-04 13:25                     ` Alan Cox
2013-01-04 13:36                       ` Alexander Holler
2013-01-05 11:41                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-01-05 11:42                           ` [PATCH] fb: udlfb: fix scheduling while atomic Alexander Holler
2013-01-06 12:46                             ` Alexander Holler
2013-01-09 13:47                               ` [PATCH v2] " Alexander Holler
2013-01-05 12:07                           ` [PATCH] fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover Alan Cox
2013-01-05 12:06                             ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2013-01-07  9:37                   ` Jiri Kosina
2013-01-12 18:36                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-12 20:51                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-01-12 21:05                         ` Alan Cox
2013-01-12 21:13                         ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-13  0:02                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-15 12:06                             ` Maarten Lankhorst
2013-01-15 15:12                               ` Alan Cox

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