[PATCH] fbdev: wait for references go away

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 06:51:17PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> I guess that a problem is happening during DRM driver load while fbdev
> driver is loaded? I assume do_unregister_framebuffer() is called inside
> do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers()?

Yes, exactly. More details here:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2020-January/045026.html

> At first glance it seems to be an user-space issue as it should not be
> holding references on /dev/fb0 while DRM driver is being loaded.

How plymouth would know when exactly it needs to release /dev/fb0?

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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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