Re: [PATCH] fbdev: annotate rivafb/nvidiafb as obsolete

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On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 14:28, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> > index 1b2f5f31fb6f..cad3e4bc5e52 100644
> > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> > @@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ config FB_ATMEL
> >
> >  config FB_NVIDIA
> >       tristate "nVidia Framebuffer Support"
> > +     depends on BROKEN
>
> Please don't add new users of BROKEN config option.
>
> Either it is broken and should be removed right now (BROKEN config option
> predates git and with git nothing is ever lost), or it still works and
> should be left alone.
>
Seems like not everyone got that memo. BROKEN is still in use, with
dozen or so cases for last year.
See for example:

commit 9d60d93198c62ac3b3e59e8bba7079646c972a4c
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Aug 26 10:28:58 2019 -0400

    Deprecate nfsd fault injection


That said, your suggestions are pretty good. v2 coming in a moment.

-Emil
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