linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

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Message-ID: <79f227c4-5ed6-23e8-2d74-3197871359f8@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 15:52:51 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

Hello,

On 5/25/21 3:34 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> If you guys with your distro hats on all think it doesn't matter, then
>> yeah I'm all for dropping the somewhat silly -drm or drmfb suffixes. I
>> think that was just way back so it's easier to know you've loaded the
>> right driver, back when there was both drm and native fbdev drivers
>> around. But now I think for new hw there's only drm, so should be all
>> fine.
> 
> Suse doesn't use fbdev, except for some outliers; most notably hypervfb 
> and generic efifb/vesafb. Both are now being replaced with drm code. 
>  From what I've seen, it's the same for other distros. And X11 checks 
> for the existence of device files anyway IIRC.
Yes, I believe is the same for us.

I'll post a patch to just remove the suffix then. Thanks you both
for the feedback.

> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
>> -Daniel
>>
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer
New Platform Technologies Enablement team
RHEL Engineering