On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Dave Airlie airlied@linux.ie wrote:
These patches have been sailing around long enough, waiting for a maintainer to reappear, so I've decided enough is enough, lockdep is kinda useful to have.
Last this was tried, these patches failed miserably.
They caused instant lockdep splat and then a total lockup with efifb. It may be that Takashi's patch helps fix that problem, but it's in no way clear that it does, so the patch series isn't at all obviously stable.
Yes, lockdep is indeed "kinda useful", and there clearly are locking problems in fbdev. But I'm not seeing myself pulling these for 3.8. They've been too problematic to pull in at this late stage.
Okay I'll fix the efifb problem and then maybe queue them for -next.
Dave.