linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE

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Message-ID: <20180911074228.GI19774@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:42:28 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag

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@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> > Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@...il.com>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> > Cc: David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
> > Cc: nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>

Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next?
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch