Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:09:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Albert Herranz <> | Subject | Re: console remains blanked |
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Hi Ben,
--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> escribió: > Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The > problem is that the > printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level > drivers at interrupt > time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this > can be a problem. > Radeonfb for example relies on beeing able to > schedule() at > blank/unblank time.
Ok.
> If this "feature" is really important, maybe the > best is to trigger the > workqueue and do the ublank from there.
It looks like I'm the only one concerned, so don't worry. I'll workaround it.
Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers, Albert
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