Hello, On 5/25/21 3:34 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: [snip] >> >> 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. > > Suse doesn't use fbdev, except for some outliers; most notably hypervfb > and generic efifb/vesafb. Both are now being replaced with drm code. > From what I've seen, it's the same for other distros. And X11 checks > for the existence of device files anyway IIRC. Yes, I believe is the same for us. I'll post a patch to just remove the suffix then. Thanks you both for the feedback. > > Best regards > Thomas > >> -Daniel >> > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Software Engineer New Platform Technologies Enablement team RHEL Engineering
