On 7/11/22 12:42, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi Javier [...] >> That's why I think that "vga-framebuffer" as driver name would be misleading. >> Specially since it would also bind to the "ega-framebuffer" platform device. > > I messed up device and driver name, such that misunderstood your remark. > > As we use the id_table field for matching devices, the driver name > doesn't matter. [1] So let's keep the driver name as vga16fb. The change > above must have been left over from an earlier prototype patch, I guess. > Agreed. The driver name is used as the last resort to match a device only if there isn't any device ID table (ACPI, OF, platform, etc) but that's discouraged. Specially when the same driver supports different devices as it's the case for this driver. -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
