Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized | From | Markus Armbruster <> | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:45:29 +0100 |
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"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> What about pushing the fb_defio fixes independently of any new >> fb_defio users? If fb_defio was worth merging into Linus's tree, it >> should be worth fixing there, whether new users are in shape already >> or not. > > I think that Andrew's message is saying that there may be a race > condition in the defio patch itself as opposed to the defio user > patch. > > If there is no race condition or other problems, then I think it would > make sense to merge the defio patch independent of metronomefb or > other new patches that use defio. > > Thanks, > jaya
Any progress on this?
Considering that fb_defio is utterly broken without the fix (writing the frame buffer makes the VM endlessly invoke vm_ops.page_mkwrite()), wouldn't it make sense to merge the fix even if it still has issues?
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