Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] Cleanups for the nomodeset kernel command line parameter logic

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On 11/12/21 14:32, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> There is a lot of historical baggage on this parameter. It is defined in
> the vgacon driver as nomodeset, but its set function is called text_mode()
> and the value queried with a function named vgacon_text_force().
> 
> All this implies that it's about forcing text mode for VGA, yet it is not
> used in neither vgacon nor other console driver. The only users for these
> are DRM drivers, that check for the vgacon_text_force() return value to
> determine whether the driver should be loaded or not.
> 
> That makes it quite confusing to read the code, because the variables and
> function names don't reflect what they actually do and also are not in the
> same subsystem as the drivers that make use of them.
> 
> This patch-set attempts to cleanup the code by moving the nomodseset param
> to the DRM subsystem and do some renaming to make their intention clearer.
> 

I have pushed these patches to the drm-misc-next branch.

Thanks a lot everyone for the help with this series!

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat