Hi Ben,

 --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
escribió:
> Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The
> problem is that the
> printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level
> drivers at interrupt
> time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this
> can be a problem.
> Radeonfb for example relies on beeing able to
> schedule() at
> blank/unblank time.

Ok.

> If this "feature" is really important, maybe the
> best is to trigger the
> workqueue and do the ublank from there.

It looks like I'm the only one concerned, so don't
worry. I'll workaround it.

Thanks for your feedback.

Cheers,
Albert




                
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