[PATCH v2 06/13] lib/fonts: Remove FNTCHARCNT()
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Date: 2026-03-02 14:13:26
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Subsystem:
console subsystem, framebuffer console, framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Helge Deller, Thomas Zimmermann, Linus Torvalds
The character count in the font data is unused. The internal fonts also do not set it. Remove FNTCHARCNT(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> --- drivers/video/console/newport_con.c | 1 - include/linux/font.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c b/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c
index b178678566e7..e2922caa8685 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c@@ -516,7 +516,6 @@ static int newport_set_font(int unit, const struct console_font *op, new_data += FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int); FNTSIZE(new_data) = size; - FNTCHARCNT(new_data) = op->charcount; REFCOUNT(new_data) = 0; /* usage counter */ FNTSUM(new_data) = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/font.h b/include/linux/font.h
index fd8625cd76b2..d929c5fa32ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/font.h
+++ b/include/linux/font.h@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ extern const struct font_desc *get_default_font(int xres, int yres, /* Extra word getters */ #define REFCOUNT(fd) (((int *)(fd))[-1]) #define FNTSIZE(fd) (((int *)(fd))[-2]) -#define FNTCHARCNT(fd) (((int *)(fd))[-3]) #define FNTSUM(fd) (((int *)(fd))[-4]) #define FONT_EXTRA_WORDS 4
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