This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "drm: fb_helper: fix CONFIG_FB dependency"
to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-drm-fb_helper-fix-config_fb-dependency.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From acae23dd371a39f792d5da13666876285b58c35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:30:13 +0100
Subject: Revert "drm: fb_helper: fix CONFIG_FB dependency"
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This reverts commit c95380ba527ae0aee29b2a133c5d0c481d472759 which is
commit 606b102876e3741851dfb09d53f3ee57f650a52c upstream.
It causes some build problems as reported by Jiri.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fdb2bf1-de52-1b9d-4783-c61ce39e8f51@xxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_DP_MST_TOPOLOGY_REFS
config DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
bool "Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver"
depends on DRM
- depends on FB=y || FB=DRM
+ depends on FB
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.14/kvm-fix-steal-time-asm-constraints.patch
queue-5.14/revert-drm-fb_helper-fix-config_fb-dependency.patch
queue-5.14/bootconfig-init-fix-memblock-leak-in-xbc_make_cmdline.patch
queue-5.14/loop-use-blk_validate_block_size-to-validate-block-size.patch
queue-5.14/fortify-explicitly-disable-clang-support.patch
queue-5.14/block-add-a-helper-to-validate-the-block-size.patch
queue-5.14/revert-drm-fb_helper-improve-config_fb-dependency.patch
