linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] fbcon: Call WARN_CONSOLE

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Message-ID: <ec818015-9fc9-f389-dd06-952953f84068@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:41:47 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] fbcon: Call WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() where
 applicable

Hi,

On 11-07-18 21:19, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:56:02 +0200
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> 
>>> Have you seen Steven's suggestion which he send about the same time
>>> as your mail I'm replying to here ? I personally think that doing
>>> something like that makes sense (for as long as we have the need
>>> for the lockless_fb_register debug hack).
>>>
>>> Note I've 2 patches ready to go to only fix this in fbcon.c, but I
>>> think a more thorough fix makes sense.
>>
>> Yeah Steven's suggestion looks reasonable to fix this all for good.
>> The #if 1 predates git history, so no idea why it was added or by whom
>> :-)
> 
> I just sent the patch. If the printk maintainers take it, then you can
> update the fb driver to set the ignore_console_lock_warning when
> lockless_fb_register is set.

Thanks for doing this. I will wait with sending a fbcon / fbdev patch
till the fate of your patch is clear then.

Regards,

Hans