Deadlock in fb and tty

difficult to fix, but if anyone has even a suggestion on how to hack it to make it work for me, I'd be very grateful. Thank you, John Tapsell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

[PATCH] fbcon: fix deadlock in fbcon_generic_blank()

a deadlock. fbmem.c sends the FB_EVENT_BLANK without locking lock_fb_info first, so this change introduces similar behaviour. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers

[PATCH] fbcon: fix deadlock in fbcon_generic_blank()

a deadlock. fbmem.c sends the FB_EVENT_BLANK without locking lock_fb_info first, so this change introduces similar behaviour. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console

Deadlock in fb and tty

rstand that this is really difficult to fix, but if anyone has even a suggestion on how to hack it to make it work for me, I'd be very grateful. Thank you, John Tapsell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org Mor