Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

"Jaya Kumar" [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Markus Armbruster [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

    Subject: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.24] fbdev: defio and Metronomefb
    From: Jaya Kumar [off-list ref]
    Date: 2008-02-18 13:41:26

Hi Markus,

Andrew pointed out that there may be race conditions associated with
this patch. [ http://marc.info/?l=linux-fbdev-devel&m=120376473020396&w=2
] So I would not encourage anyone to merge it. I'll try to figure
things out this weekend.

Thanks,
jaya

Thanks for the timely info.  I'm not in an undue hurry to get this
merged.  As long as we're moving forward, I'm happy.

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.

If we must have a new user, well, I could easily whip up something
like FB_VIRTUAL on top of fb_defio.

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