Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:47:28 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Instead of being a no-brainer, it turned out to be quite fundamentally
> > > buggy, and I'm very grateful to Martin that he has been fixing the bugs.
> >
> > It was not fundamentally buggy.
>
> It had race conditions with console switching that were quite fundamental.
> Martin did a good job of hunting that down.

These are even present in 2.0.x. You just have less chances to notice them on
VGA text because the critical section in text consoles is smaller than in
graphical consoles.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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