From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263316AbVGOPJz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:09:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263315AbVGOPJz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:09:55 -0400 Received: from web25802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.10.187]:49055 "HELO web25802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263316AbVGOPJl (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:09:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.es; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wzp6L2/isskFQhkXm/LsZqSS3eXGfOfQkA2rGvI2GXI1kLPCgcAaOYcKE+SCfxWtj57MDhG5IC86Nu9ZlsAbg8GSbZfui/r9nwWuptpoRJAmd+tTYApPNBcTZdl86R/gW1uzDxpJFRiqGo89ZslzIoCaehxp9YY83bvbb4wnSws= ; Message-ID: <20050715150935.3023.qmail@web25802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:09:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Albert Herranz Subject: Re: console remains blanked To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1121437536.5963.24.camel@gaston> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ben, --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: > Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The > problem is that the > printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level > drivers at interrupt > time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this > can be a problem. > Radeonfb for example relies on beeing able to > schedule() at > blank/unblank time. Ok. > If this "feature" is really important, maybe the > best is to trigger the > workqueue and do the ublank from there. It looks like I'm the only one concerned, so don't worry. I'll workaround it. Thanks for your feedback. Cheers, Albert ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es