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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:47:34AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, all merged into drm-misc-next for 4.20.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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