Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 20:25:34 EST




On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> As far as I can remember, all fbdev operations are done under the
> console semaphore.

Yeah, and some of them are horribly broken (ie copying data from user
space while doing it - causing horrible things like VC switching latencies
and invisible printk's if an oops happens during the op).

Or maybe that got fixed.

Linus
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