[PATCH 1/2] Driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIU

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:45:35 +0200 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/12/2008 11:20 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 03/12/2008 10:43 PM, York Sun wrote:
> >> +static int fsl_diu_open(struct fb_info *info, int user)
> >> +{
> >> +    struct mfb_info *mfbi = info->par;
> >> +    int res = 0;
> >> +
> >> +    spin_lock(&diu_lock);
> >> +    mfbi->count++;
> >> +    if (mfbi->count == 1) {
> >> +        DPRINTK("open plane index %d\n", mfbi->index);
> >> +        fsl_diu_check_var(&info->var, info);
> >> +        fsl_diu_set_par(info);
> > 
> > Please retest your code (at least) with sleep-inside spinlock debug 
> > option. If I see correctly you call GFP_KERNEL allocation somewhere 
> > deeper in this function, which might sleep.
> > 
>
> ...
>
> ping.
> 
> Seeing this in -mm yet. Are those comments all wrong? Are you working on it?
> 

(top-posting repaired)

Thanks.  I've made a note that this patch has outstanding issues.  Usually
this means that I'll defer merging it until they have been addressed:
either by fixing them or by successfully arguing against the objections.