linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fbdev: Make CONFIG_FB

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VeiD518W13KU+vn1yykfw1pXA8Z9Co7t5bXbB+KhCtqPQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:24:35 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, 
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, tzimmermann@...e.de, andy@...nel.org, 
	deller@....de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fbdev: Make CONFIG_FB_DEVICE optional for drivers

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com> wrote:
>
> This series makes CONFIG_FB_DEVICE optional for fbdev drivers that use
> it only for sysfs interfaces, addressing Thomas Zimmermann’s TODO to
> remove hard FB_DEVICE dependencies.
>
> The series introduces a small helper, dev_of_fbinfo(), which returns
> NULL when CONFIG_FB_DEVICE=n. This allows sysfs code paths to be skipped
> via runtime checks, avoids #ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEVICE clutter, and keeps
> full compile-time syntax checking.

Please, address my comments and I give a tag for v3. I pretty much
like the series, thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko