Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

From: Jaya Kumar
Date: Wed Mar 19 2008 - 18:46:10 EST


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Any progress on this?
>
> Considering that fb_defio is utterly broken without the fix (writing
> the frame buffer makes the VM endlessly invoke vm_ops.page_mkwrite()),
> wouldn't it make sense to merge the fix even if it still has issues?
>

Yes, Andrew has merged the fix into -mm. I see it in mmotm

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fbdev-defio-and-metronomefb-v4.patch

Thanks,
jaya
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