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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered
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Hello Daniel,

On 11/11/21 10:54, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:20:53AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer
>> and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots.
>>
>> But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the
>> generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display
>> hardware is already present.
>>
>> Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
>

Thanks for your review.

> Also Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org?
>
> btw time to organize drm-misc commit rights so you can push stuff like
> this?

Yes, I'll start the process today to request that.

> -Daniel
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat

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