Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:18:09 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> |
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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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