[git pull] fbcon locking fixes.

Dave Airlie airlied at linux.ie
Thu Jan 24 16:42:37 PST 2013


Hi Linus,

These patches have been sailing around long enough, waiting for a maintainer
to reappear, so I've decided enough is enough, lockdep is kinda useful to have.

Thanks to Daniel for annoying me enough :-)

Dave 'not the fbdev maintainer' Airlie.

The following changes since commit ba2ab41f3d68f277860768b2c5b197768b196332:

  Merge tag 'pm+acpi-for-3.8-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm (2013-01-24 10:19:13 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux fbcon-locking-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to a9d2331a8eccc17408abd5a7cd3e463745254d65:

  fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess (2013-01-25 10:34:49 +1000)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Alan Cox (1):
      fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover

Takashi Iwai (1):
      fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess

 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c           | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/video/console/fbcon.c |  33 ++++++++++-
 drivers/video/fbmem.c         |   9 ++-
 drivers/video/fbsysfs.c       |   3 +
 include/linux/console.h       |   2 +
 include/linux/vt_kern.h       |   2 +
 6 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)


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