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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> As far as I can remember, all fbdev operations are done under the
> console semaphore.

Yeah, and some of them are horribly broken (ie copying data from user 
space while doing it - causing horrible things like VC switching latencies 
and invisible printk's if an oops happens during the op).

Or maybe that got fixed. 

			Linus
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