Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

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 <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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