[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Hold struct_mutex during hotplug processing

[Keith Packard]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:12:25 -0700, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

> I'd like to amend my reviewed by and say the lock shouldn't be held
> around the call to the drm helper function.  It queues some work that
> also takes the mode config lock, which will break.  So you can drop it
> before that...  Previously I had only checked our internal driver
> callbacks but missed that the lock was held across the helper too.

So the work may get executed immediately rather than being run later at
some point?

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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