linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

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Message-Id: <20210525151313.3379622-1-javierm@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 17:13:13 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

Framebuffer devices that are registered by DRM drivers for fbdev emulation
have a "drmfb" suffix in their name. But makes them to be quite confusing
for drivers that already have "drm" in their name:

$ cat /proc/fb
0 rockchipdrmdrmfb

$ cat /proc/fb
0 simpledrmdrmfb

Also, there isn't a lot of value in adding these "drmfb" suffices to their
names, since users shouldn't really care if the FB devices were registered
by a real fbdev driver or a DRM driver using the fbdev emulation.

What programs should be interested about is if there's a DRM device, and
there are better ways to query that info than reading this procfs entry.

So let's just remove the suffix, which leads to much better device names:

$ cat /proc/fb
0 rockchipdrm

$ cat /proc/fb
0 simpledrm

Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Just remove the "drmfb" suffix instead of using a different one (tzimmermann).

 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index f6baa204612..d77a24507d3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ void drm_fb_helper_fill_info(struct fb_info *info,
 			       sizes->fb_width, sizes->fb_height);
 
 	info->par = fb_helper;
-	snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%sdrmfb",
+	snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%s",
 		 fb_helper->dev->driver->name);
 
 }
-- 
2.31.1