On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 08:53:56PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi > > Am 21.05.21 um 19:18 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas: > > On 5/21/21 6:53 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > So what with all the drivers which do _not_ have drm in their name? Also > > > > I'm never sure how much these are uapi or not ... > > > > > > > That someone could threat as an uapi is a fair point indeed. > > > Why do we need a suffix anyway? > > > > > > > Yes, I thought the same and was torn about posting a patch to just remove > > the suffix. I don't think users care that much if is a fb device from a > > fbdev driver or a DRM driver using the fbdev emulation. > > Yup. I don't see how anything in userspace would depend on the exact name; > especially since fbdev emulation only provides basic features. (I'd welcome > a counter examples that proves me wrong.) > > IMHO we can risk it to remove the suffix entirely. But that needs an ack > from Daniel or Dave. If you guys with your distro hats on all think it doesn't matter, then yeah I'm all for dropping the somewhat silly -drm or drmfb suffixes. I think that was just way back so it's easier to know you've loaded the right driver, back when there was both drm and native fbdev drivers around. But now I think for new hw there's only drm, so should be all fine. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
