On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:24:25 +0800 "Jaya Kumar" [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Markus Armbruster [off-list ref] wrote:

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 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.

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