linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to drm_fbdev_generic

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Message-ID: <YnAz6HPPfWpYcZvF@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 May 2022 22:41:28 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to
 drm_fbdev_generic_setup()

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 09:28:45PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 5/2/22 20:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:15:16PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> On 5/2/22 18:55, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>>> drop the depth option to drm_fbdev_generic_setup() ? There's a FIXME
> >>>> comment in drm_fbdev_generic_setup() that could be related.
> >>>
> >>> A FIXME makes sense, I'll add that to when posting a v3.
> >>
> >> There's actually a FIXME already in drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), so it's
> >> a documented issue [0]:
> > 
> > That's what I meant by "there's a FIXME" :-) It doesn't have to be
> > addressed by this series, but it would be good to fix it.
> 
> doh, I misread your original email. Yes, it's the same issue as you
> said and something that I plan to look at some point as a follow-up.
>  
> I hope that we could just replace fbcon with a kms/systemd-consoled/foo
> user-space implementation before fixing all the stuff in the DRM fbdev
> emulation layer :)

If you can do that, I'll provide champagne :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart