On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at 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.
