Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:22:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1. |
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Thomas Hellström wrote: > > It would be very helpful if we could introduce an fbdev mutex that protects > fbdev accesses to the kernel map and to the fbdev acceleration functions.
Not going to happen.
Why? 'printk'.
If you can't handle printk, then you're basically useless. And printk absolutely -has- to work in bad situations (the most important messages could happen in any context).
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