On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 06:13:19 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2018 09:29:38 AM Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
> > 
> > There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of
> > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when
> > the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is
> > not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of
> > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to
> > fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver.
> > 
> > There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before
> > git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can
> > be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging.
> > 
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
> 
> Patch queued for 4.19, thanks.

Dequeued, I've just noticed a newer patch from Thomas for this issue
(I plan to apply it later this week).

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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