Re: [stable] [BISECTED] x11 fbdev on intelfb hangs hard after66c1ca019078220dc1bf968f2bb18421100ef147

From: Andrea Righi
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 17:00:15 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:34:24PM +0000, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andrea Righi (righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Thanks for reporting Pavel. I agree to revert 66c1ca ASAP.
>
> Rather than dropping from -stable queue, looks like we should be adding:
> 513adb58685615b0b1d47a3f0d40f5352beff189 "fbdev: fix info->lock deadlock
> in fbcon_event_notify()"?
>
> thanks,
> -chris

Correct.

Both Andreas and Krzysztof (in cc) tested this and reported that it
fixes the issue (see also http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/17753/).

Thanks,
-Andrea
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