Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] fbcon: Add fbcon_rotate_hint to struct fb_info

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Hi Hans,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On some hardware the LCD panel is not mounted upright in the casing,
> but upside-down or rotated 90 degrees. In this case we want the console
> to automatically be rotated to compensate.
> 
> The fbdev-driver may know about the need to rotate. Add a new
> fbcon_rotate_hint field to struct fb_info, which gets initialized to -1.
> If the fbdev-driver knows that some sort of rotation is necessary then
> it can set this field to a FB_ROTATE_* value to tell the fbcon console
> driver to rotate the console.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks for your work. I will give it a try with Droid 4 and N950
once I find some time :)

[...]

> +	p->con_rotate = initial_rotation;
> +	if (p->con_rotate == -1)
> +		p->con_rotate = info->fbcon_rotate_hint;
> +	if (p->con_rotate == -1)
>  		p->con_rotate = fbcon_platform_get_rotate(info);

[...]

> +	p->con_rotate = initial_rotation;
> +	if (p->con_rotate == -1)
> +		p->con_rotate = info->fbcon_rotate_hint;
> +	if (p->con_rotate == -1)
>  		p->con_rotate = fbcon_platform_get_rotate(info);
> +

maybe add a little helper function to reduce code duplication?

-- Sebastian

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