BUG: circular locking dependency detected

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Can you please also pick up the (currently) three locking fixups
>> around fbcon? Just so that we don't repeat the same fun where people
>> complain about lockdep splats, but the fixes are stuck somewhere. And
>> I guess Dave would be happy to not end up as fbcon maintainer ;-) He
>> has a git branch with them at
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=fbcon-locking-fixes
>> though I have a small bikeshed on his last patch pending.
>
> Care to just send me the patches through email when you all get done
> bikesheding?  And for some reason I thought Andrew was going to handle
> these fbcon patches, but if not, I'll be glad to take them.

Yeah, I'll annoy people again with patches until they're merged ;-)
Iirc Andrew picked them due to lack of an fbcon maintainer, and
everyone else likes to pass the bucket. Having looked through the code
a bit, imo understandable ...

btw, I've started to look into how we could fix the locking madness
around fbcon for good instead of with duct-tape [1]. I'll try to
discuss this with a few fbdev guys at fosdem (some at least should be
there). Certainly a long-term thing, but comments from whomever gets
volunteered to shepherd fbcon would be great.

Cheers, Daniel

1: http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg33535.html
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