Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:15:07 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: tty, vt: lockdep warnings |
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> The fbdev potential for deadlock may be years old, but the warning > (and consequent disabling of lockdep from that point on - making it > useless to everybody else in need of it) is new, and comes from the > commit below in linux-next. > > I revert it in my own testing: if there is no quick fix to the > fbdev issue on the way, Daniel, please revert it from your tree.
If you revert it you swap it for a different deadlock - and one that happens more often I would expect. Not very useful.
I'm hoping the framebuffer maintainer will bother to respond to this because that's the only way it can be sorted out.
Alan
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