Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:06:03 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 3.8-rc2: EFI framebuffer lock inversion... |
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:40:47 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > The fb layer locking was broken. I posted patches early December which > > should have fixed the ones we know about. ('fb: Rework locking to fix > > lock ordering on takeover'). > > That patch causes compile errors with "allmodconfig": > > ERROR: "do_take_over_console" [drivers/video/console/fbcon.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > Hmm?
I have a couple of fixes against fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover.patch:
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover-fix.patch http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fb-rework-locking-to-fix-lock-ordering-on-takeover-fix-2.patch
Florian has been busy for a month or two - I've been waiting for him to reappear to consider this patch.
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