[PATCH] qxl: fix framebuffer unpinning

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Sep 25 07:14:40 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 14:37 -0300, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > > I can simply disable X, lightdm or whatever is using it and then
> > > rmmod.
> > 
> > Works for me only with CONFIG_FBCON=n, otherwise the fbcon
> > framebuffer
> > keeps qxl busy.  So is most cases (typical distro kernel build with
> > FBCON=y) you simply can't rmmod qxl.
> > 
> > I agree that "rmmod qxl" should be fixed, but IMHO this is
> > independent
> > from this bugfix, and I'd like to get it out of the door ASAP.  Can
> > I
> > get your reviewed-by?
> 
> Yes, getting this out of the door asap makes total sense to
> me.  Please
> add my reviewed-by:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman at collabora.co.uk>

Thanks.  Pushed to misc-fixes.

cheers,
  Gerd


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