Hi Javier.
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:32:30PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
From: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Well except when the olpc dcon fbdev driver is enabled, that thing digs around in there in rather unfixable ways.
Cc oldc_dcon maintainers as fyi.
Another way to fix this is to mark FB_OLPC_DCON and add a TODO entry to fix this. We are really not supposed to carry such special code around to keep staging working.
I know this may not be a popular viewpoint, but just look at the ugly workarounds required here.
Sam
v2: I typoed the config name (0day)
Cc: kernel test robot lkp@intel.com Cc: Jens Frederich jfrederich@gmail.com Cc: Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton@gmail.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com Cc: Daniel Vetter daniel@ffwll.ch Cc: Helge Deller deller@gmx.de Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: Sam Ravnborg sam@ravnborg.org Cc: Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp Cc: Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com Cc: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: Xiyu Yang xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com Cc: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com
(no changes since v1)
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 8 ++++++-- include/linux/fb.h | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c index 265efa189bcc..6cab5f4c1fb3 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c @@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(registration_lock);
struct fb_info *registered_fb[FB_MAX] __read_mostly; -EXPORT_SYMBOL(registered_fb);
int num_registered_fb __read_mostly; +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FB_OLPC_DCON) +EXPORT_SYMBOL(registered_fb); EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_registered_fb); +#endif
It is stuff like this I refer to as "ugly" in the comment above.
Sam