Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] fbdev: omapfb: Make FB_DEVICE dependency optional
From: Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-12-30 08:05:09
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linux-fbdev, linux-omap, lkml
From: Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-12-30 08:05:09
Also in:
linux-fbdev, linux-omap, lkml
* Chintan Patel [off-list ref]:
omapfb provides several sysfs interfaces for framebuffer configuration and debugging, but these are not required for the core driver. Remove the hard dependency on CONFIG_FB_DEVICE and make sysfs support optional by using dev_of_fbinfo() to obtain the backing device at runtime. When FB_DEVICE is disabled, sysfs operations are skipped while the code still builds and is type-checked. Suggested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Chintan Patel <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
--- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/Kconfig | 3 ++- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-sysfs.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)