On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:24:25 +0800 "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >  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?
> >
> 
> Yes, Andrew has merged the fix into -mm. I see it in mmotm
> 
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fbdev-defio-and-metronomefb-v4.patch
> 

Do we need some of all of that patch in 2.6.25?  I wasn't aware of such a
need.

If the drivers/video/fb_defio.c hunk of that patch fixes something then I'd
be inclined to merge the whole thing - adding a new driver won't hurt
anyone.