Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer()and fb_open()

[Anca Emanuel]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not a fbdev expert. So I leave the real fix to real men ( ;-) ).
> It is causing deadlock during boot, so I would consider it quite critical.
> Users using any fb driver will get into troubles.
> The workaround is to boot with vga=normal.

Did you test 2.6.39 ? The fix from Linus is not ok ?
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