Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau: add fbdev dependency

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 00:36, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:05 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Isn't this already fixed by
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm/commit/?id=7dbbdd37f2ae7dd4175ba3f86f4335c463b18403
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> Ok, I see that fixes the link error, but I when I created my fix, that did
> not seem like the correct solution because it reverts part of the original
> patch without reverting the rest of it. Unfortunately there was no
> changelog text in the first patch to explain why this is safe.

No it doesn't, I think you missed the pci in API name.

The initial behaviour doesn't use the pci version of the API, the
replacement did, and the fix used the drm wrapper around the pci one.

So this patch isn't necessary now that I've fixed it the other way,

Thanks,
Dave.