# Re: \[PATCH 1/4\] fbdev: Drop FBINFO\_CAN\_FORCE\_OUTPUT flag

- From: Daniel Vetter \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-09-11 07:42:36 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2018/09/5377451
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2018/08/5361306/t.md

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> On 08/22/2018 10:54 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > This was only added for the drm's fbdev emulation support, so that it
> > would try harder to show the Oops.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this never really worked reliably, and in practice ended
> > up pushing the real Oops off the screen due to plentyfull locking,
> > sleep-while-atomic and other issues. So we removed all that support
> > from the fbdev emulation a while back. Aside: We've also removed the
> > kgdb support, for similar reasons.
> > 
> > Since it's such a small patch I figured I don't split this up into the
> > usual 3-phase removal.
> > 
> > Cc: Ben Skeggs <redacted>
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <redacted>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Hans de Goede <redacted>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <redacted>
> > Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <redacted>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
> > Cc: Thierry Reding <redacted>
> > Cc: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> > Cc: <redacted>
> > Cc: <redacted>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <redacted>
> 
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <redacted>

Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next?
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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