linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] fbdev: omapfb: Make FB

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Message-ID: <3bb1ed8b-4aa9-4cdb-b70a-a0dd3f9b2ff9@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:52:46 +0100
From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 andy@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] fbdev: omapfb: Make FB_DEVICE dependency optional

On 1/7/26 08:33, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 07.01.26 um 05:42 schrieb Chintan Patel:
>> omapfb provides several sysfs interfaces for framebuffer configuration
>> and debugging, but these are not required for the core driver.
>>
>> Remove the hard dependency on CONFIG_FB_DEVICE and make sysfs support
>> optional by using dev_of_fbinfo() to obtain the backing device at runtime.
>> When FB_DEVICE is disabled, sysfs operations are skipped while the code
>> still builds and is type-checked.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
>> Signed-off-by: Chintan Patel <chintanlike@...il.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>

applied to fbdev.

Thanks!
Helge

  
>> ---
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/Kconfig       |  3 ++-
>>   .../video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-sysfs.c    | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>>   2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)