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From: "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@pol.net,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:24:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45a44e480803190424s51b85efbk39ab3bfce4cb924a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqzjat6e.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  Any progress on this?
>
>  Considering that fb_defio is utterly broken without the fix (writing
>  the frame buffer makes the VM endlessly invoke vm_ops.page_mkwrite()),
>  wouldn't it make sense to merge the fix even if it still has issues?
>

Yes, Andrew has merged the fix into -mm. I see it in mmotm

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fbdev-defio-and-metronomefb-v4.patch

Thanks,
jaya

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 13:00 [PATCH 0/3] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer Markus Armbruster
2008-02-25 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: Make xen-blkfront write its protocol ABI to xenstore Markus Armbruster
2008-02-25 13:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized Markus Armbruster
2008-02-26 14:11   ` Jaya Kumar
2008-02-26 14:45     ` Markus Armbruster
2008-02-26 15:01       ` Jaya Kumar
2008-03-19 10:45         ` Markus Armbruster
2008-03-19 11:24           ` Jaya Kumar [this message]
2008-03-19 18:37             ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19 22:30               ` Jaya Kumar
2008-03-19 22:39                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19 22:55                   ` Jaya Kumar
2008-02-25 13:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver Markus Armbruster

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