[Libdlo] Fedora 11 status report

[Alexander Todorov]

Bernie Thompson wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> Took a quick look at the kernel oops.  We obviously don't have people
> running with debug kernels, since we hadn't seen that one -- clearly
> still early days.
> 
> It looks like fbcon assumes that the fbdev driver under it will never
> call a function that could sleep (that is, it will call the fbdev
> driver while in interrupt context).
> 
> Unfortunately, none of the displaylink fbdev drivers are designed for
> that constraint.  Because they're unusual in that they've got another
> complex subsystem under them (usb), it's not clear they can, without
> queuing up the request for later execution. But this needs to be
> looked into.  Roberto, Jaya, others - anyone already thought this
> through?
> 
> So at least for the time being it looks like that workaround from the
> last mail to disable fbcon is essential.  But this should go on the
> list of issues to deal with.
> 

Is there an issue tracker to report this so it's not forgotten?

Thanks,
Alexander.