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

- From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-09-11 08:47:42 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2018/09/5377513
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2018/08/5361306/t.md

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On 09/11/2018 09:42 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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?

Yes, thanks for taking care of this.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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