Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:42:28 +0200 | From | Daniel Vetter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On 08/22/2018 10:54 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > This was only added for the drm's fbdev emulation support, so that it > > would try harder to show the Oops. > > > > Unfortunately this never really worked reliably, and in practice ended > > up pushing the real Oops off the screen due to plentyfull locking, > > sleep-while-atomic and other issues. So we removed all that support > > from the fbdev emulation a while back. Aside: We've also removed the > > kgdb support, for similar reasons. > > > > Since it's such a small patch I figured I don't split this up into the > > usual 3-phase removal. > > > > Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > > Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> > > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > > Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> > > Cc: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> > > Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org > > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next? -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
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