Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Feb 2022 12:39:29 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] drm/tiny: Add driver for Solomon SSD1307 OLED displays | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> |
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Hello Andy,
On 2/2/22 12:06, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 09:38:51AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> On 2/1/22 21:40, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > ... > >> Peter Robinson suggested to >> make the driver mutually exclusive and add !FB_SSD1307 in the config symbol. > > And how will distros choose "the right" option in this case?
It depends on the distro. In Fedora we are disabling *all* the fbdev drivers.
> What to do when I wan to see a regression and I want to change drivers w/o > recompilation? >
If you want to have the two drivers without recompilation (and same compatible to match) then how would kmod / udev choose which one to load ? It becomes a race condition between the two drivers which one probes first.
> NAK from me to that proposal. >
What's your suggestion then to solve the issue mentioned above ? With my distro maintainer hat I don't care that much, since the fbdev drivers will be disabled.
Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
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