Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 6 authors, 2013-12-20

Re: [PATCH v3] x86: sysfb: remove sysfb when probing real hw

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: 2013-12-19 17:09:34
Also in: lkml, stable

* David Herrmann [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Ingo Molnar [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
* David Herrmann [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
--- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@

 #include <asm/fb.h>

+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86)
+#include <asm/sysfb.h>
+#endif
I think this can be written as:

#ifdef CONFIG_X86
# include <asm/sysfb.h>
#endif

also ... the dependency on a large, unrelated option like CONFIG_X86
looks pretty ugly here - is there no other, more specific CONFIG_
option that can be used here - such as CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE or
CONFIG_X86_SYSFB?
quoted
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86)
+     sysfb_unregister(apert, primary);
+#endif
Ditto.
CONFIG_X86 is probably never 'm'.. will fix that. It was 
CONFIG_X86_SYSFB before and that works, too, but the broader X86 
seemed more appropriate as sysfb is available on all x86.
Well, sysfb is available if CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is set, right? So on 
!CONFIG_X86_SYSFB x86 kernels this code should not run, right?
Note that I have patches here locally which move 
sysfb_register/unregister to drivers/video/sysfb.c and add 
include/linux/sysfb.h with dummies if CONFIG_SYSFB is not selected 
to avoid the #ifdef. This will allow other architectures to do 
gfx-hand-over, too. They seem too big for stable, though. That's why 
I split them up and added it to x86/kernel/sysfb.c first.
Yeah, it's fine to do those cleanups after the minimal fix. But using 
a sensible config option must still be done - we cannot just slap 
broad CONFIG_X86 dependencies into random code.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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