Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] vgacon: dummy implementation for vgacon_text_force

[Emil Velikov]

On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This allows us to ditch a ton of ugly #ifdefs from a bunch of drm modeset
> drivers.
>
> v2: Make the dummy function actually return a sane value, spotted by
> Ville.
>
> Cc: Ville SyrjÃlà <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.c         | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/cirrus_drv.c   | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c       | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c         | 2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c   | 2 --
>  include/linux/console.h               | 2 ++

The new drivers seems to be missing the conversion. Namely amdgpu and
virtio_gpu.

> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
> @@ -1072,10 +1072,8 @@ nouveau_drm_init(void)
>         nouveau_display_options();
>
>         if (nouveau_modeset == -1) {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE
>                 if (vgacon_text_force())
>                         nouveau_modeset = 0;
> -#endif
It's kind of interesting how nouveau differs from everyone else. The
force toggle has lower priority than the nouveau specific one :-)
Obviously not something you should address or anything.

Another interesting fact is how none of the SoC honour the modeset fla :-\

Regards,
Emil
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