On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:57:15PM +0000, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:
> Hi Greg, all,
> 
> On 03/23/2012 05:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     video:uvesafb: Fix oops that uvesafb try to execute NX-protected page
> > 
> > to the 3.3-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      
> > video-uvesafb-fix-oops-that-uvesafb-try-to-execute-nx-protected-page.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> >>From ec0d22e4d563e7cce9f6678e2000900755c2989d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Wang YanQing <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:48:50 +0800
> > Subject: video:uvesafb: Fix oops that uvesafb try to execute NX-protected 
> > page
> 
> unfortunately this patch is not suitable for stable (yet). The problem
> is that this patch breaks compiling uvesafb as a module if
> 'pcibios_enabled' is not exported, which it isn't at the moment. As Alan
> Cox did not agree with exporting it (well I think he actually disagrees
> with this patch) I had to revert it for now. I hope that this issue gets
> solved during the rc phase.

Ok, now dropped, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h
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