linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 14662] drm/i915: Select CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:31:23 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Mateusz Kaduk <mateusz.kaduk@...il.com>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14662] drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:26 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I'm slightly worried by this patch which went into Linus's git yesterday.
> 
> Thank you for looking into the issue, and coming up with what Mateusz
> has found to be a good workaround.
> 
> But is it the right fix?

This really does look like a band-aid. There's either a real problem in
tiny-shmem or alternately something scribbling on its aops? In which
case turning shmem on is just causing something different to get
scribbled on.

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