[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Wed Nov 25 21:38:58 CET 2009


On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:40:31 +0000, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> The driver requires shmfs as the backing filesystem to handle the buffer
> objects, so ensure it is selected if the user chooses to build our
> driver.
> 
> Fixes: Bug 14662 - Dell E5500 kernel panic with KMS
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14662
> 
> The revealing nature of the panic is the NULL function pointer
> dereference in read_cache_page_async().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Mateusz Kaduk <mateusz.kaduk at gmail.com>

Applied, thanks!



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