[PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: make CONFIG_FB_DEVICE optional

From: Sukrut Heroorkar

Date: Wed Sep 24 2025 - 13:58:59 EST


The udlfb driver exposes sysfs attributes thus depends upon
CONFIG_FB_DEVICE. This patch work wraps relavent code blocks
with #ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE so that the driver can still be
built even when CONFIG_FB_DEVICE is not selected.

This addresses an item in Documentation/gpu/TODO.rst.

Signed-off-by: Sukrut Heroorkar <hsukrut3@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: this change has only been compile-tested.

drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 1 -
drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index 1500dca8c416..40442b80de17 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -1596,7 +1596,6 @@ config FB_SMSCUFX
config FB_UDL
tristate "Displaylink USB Framebuffer support"
depends on FB && USB
- depends on FB_DEVICE
select FB_MODE_HELPERS
select FB_SYSMEM_HELPERS_DEFERRED
help
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
index ccede85df1e1..de2e310054d4 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
@@ -1382,6 +1382,7 @@ static int dlfb_setup_modes(struct dlfb_data *dlfb,
return result;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
static ssize_t metrics_bytes_rendered_show(struct device *fbdev,
struct device_attribute *a, char *buf) {
struct fb_info *fb_info = dev_get_drvdata(fbdev);
@@ -1413,6 +1414,7 @@ static ssize_t metrics_cpu_kcycles_used_show(struct device *fbdev,
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n",
atomic_read(&dlfb->cpu_kcycles_used));
}
+#endif

static ssize_t edid_show(
struct file *filp,
@@ -1486,6 +1488,7 @@ static const struct bin_attribute edid_attr = {
.write = edid_store
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
static const struct device_attribute fb_device_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RO(metrics_bytes_rendered),
__ATTR_RO(metrics_bytes_identical),
@@ -1493,6 +1496,7 @@ static const struct device_attribute fb_device_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RO(metrics_cpu_kcycles_used),
__ATTR(metrics_reset, S_IWUSR, NULL, metrics_reset_store),
};
+#endif

/*
* This is necessary before we can communicate with the display controller.
@@ -1702,6 +1706,7 @@ static int dlfb_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
goto error;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(fb_device_attrs); i++) {
attr = &fb_device_attrs[i];
retval = device_create_file(info->dev, attr);
@@ -1710,6 +1715,7 @@ static int dlfb_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
"failed to create '%s' attribute: %d\n",
attr->attr.name, retval);
}
+#endif

retval = device_create_bin_file(info->dev, &edid_attr);
if (retval)
@@ -1753,9 +1759,11 @@ static void dlfb_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
/* this function will wait for all in-flight urbs to complete */
dlfb_free_urb_list(dlfb);

+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
/* remove udlfb's sysfs interfaces */
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(fb_device_attrs); i++)
device_remove_file(info->dev, &fb_device_attrs[i]);
+#endif
device_remove_bin_file(info->dev, &edid_attr);

unregister_framebuffer(info);
--
2.43.0