Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Use CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 01:48:53PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 01:34:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Instead of our own duplicated one. This fixes a bug in the driver
> > unload code if DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=n but DRM_I915_FBDEV=y because we
> > try to unregister the nonexistent fbdev drm_framebuffer.
> > 
> > Cc: Archit Taneja <architt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig         | 15 ---------------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile        |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c  |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h      |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_mst.c  |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h     |  2 +-
> >  7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> Isn't this going to cause some pain to users because .config may not
> have this symbol yet? Arguably this is somewhat mitigated by the fact
> that both symbols are "default y", but technically somebody could have
> DRM_I915_FBDEV=n in their .config and after this change fbdev emulation
> will be switched on again.
> 
> I'm not sure how to upgrade more sanely, though, so perhaps this is just
> a bullet that needs biting.

There are other drivers two with their private FBDEV option (like msm) so
I don't think we can do any sensible upgrade logic that just works.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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