Re: BUG: circular locking dependency detected

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Can you please also pick up the (currently) three locking fixups
around fbcon? Just so that we don't repeat the same fun where people
complain about lockdep splats, but the fixes are stuck somewhere. And
I guess Dave would be happy to not end up as fbcon maintainer ;-) He
has a git branch with them at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?hûcon-locking-fixes
though I have a small bikeshed on his last patch pending.

Care to just send me the patches through email when you all get done
bikesheding?  And for some reason I thought Andrew was going to handle
these fbcon patches, but if not, I'll be glad to take them.

Yeah, I'll annoy people again with patches until they're merged ;-)
Iirc Andrew picked them due to lack of an fbcon maintainer, and
everyone else likes to pass the bucket. Having looked through the code
a bit, imo understandable ...

btw, I've started to look into how we could fix the locking madness
around fbcon for good instead of with duct-tape [1]. I'll try to
discuss this with a few fbdev guys at fosdem (some at least should be
there). Certainly a long-term thing, but comments from whomever gets
volunteered to shepherd fbcon would be great.

Cheers, Daniel

1: http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg33535.html
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