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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix VT mode change vs. fbcon
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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> How about calling resize_screen in vt.c instead in this function. This way 
> fbcon could reset the hardware state :-) 

Because I don't want to change the semantics in VT too much, the whole
VT code is rather fragile and I want to avoid beeing invasive at this
point and trigger all sort of funny side effects.

Ben.