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

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Sep 11 2018 - 04:47:42 EST


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 <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>
>
> Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next?

Yes, thanks for taking care of this.

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