linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] fbdev: Make CONFIG_FB

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Message-ID: <7ded1cc9-71bb-4ad3-8804-477b4317a6b3@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:59:35 -0800
From: Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.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 v3 0/4] fbdev: Make CONFIG_FB_DEVICE optional for drivers



On 12/30/25 03:33, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 09:28:18PM -0800, Chintan Patel 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.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Use PTR_IF() to conditionally include overlay_sysfs_group in
>>    overlay_sysfs_groups
>> - Decouple variable definition and assignment in fbtft_sysfs_init/exit
> 
> Any particular reasons you ignored my tag from v2?
> 
Ah.. This is typo. I see what happened now. Looks like my script picked 
wrong or old patches instead of new updated one. Should I send v4 or v4 
is fine?