Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> 
> It would be very helpful if we could introduce an fbdev mutex that protects
> fbdev accesses to the kernel map and to the fbdev acceleration functions.

Not going to happen.

Why? 'printk'.

If you can't handle printk, then you're basically useless. And printk 
absolutely -has- to work in bad situations (the most important messages 
could happen in any context).

			Linus
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