[PATCH] drm: fb helper should avoid sleeping in panic context

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:05:21PM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> oh, whoops.. gmail hiding quoted text..
> 
> yeah, that looks sane,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
> 
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM, rui wang <ruiv.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > Yes it's exactly what I'm doing. Please scroll down and review my patch.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rui
> >
> > On 12/10/14, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> perhaps fb helpers could use __drm_modeset_lock_all() w/ trylock=true
> >> in panic context?
> >>
> >> BR,
> >> -R
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:09 PM, rui wang <ruiv.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> Any comment ? Or any better idea how this should be fixed?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Rui
> >>>

Dear gmail-ers,

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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