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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2009-11-22 15:40:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> | 2009-11-25 12:27:42 -0800 |
| commit | ca9ab10033d190c1ede85fdf456307bdfdabf079 (patch) | |
| tree | 2136fc5c863c826481786222c91daa2fd98ef766 /drivers/gpu | |
| parent | 8e9e0eea9955bffbe5e5cd6355157cabddc31f17 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ca9ab10033d190c1ede85fdf456307bdfdabf079.tar.bz2 | |
drm/i915: Select CONFIG_SHMEM
The driver requires shmfs as the backing filesystem to handle the buffer
objects, so ensure it is selected if the user chooses to build our
driver.
Fixes: Bug 14662 - Dell E5500 kernel panic with KMS
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14662
The revealing nature of the panic is the NULL function pointer
dereference in read_cache_page_async().
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reported-and-tested-by: Mateusz Kaduk <mateusz.kaduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig index f831ea159291..96eddd17e050 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ config DRM_I830 config DRM_I915 tristate "i915 driver" depends on AGP_INTEL + select SHMEM select DRM_KMS_HELPER select FB_CFB_FILLRECT select FB_CFB_COPYAREA |