This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names" to the 5.15-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-improve-drm-fbdev-emulation-dev.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9dd5c04d5d18339044fc4475fa87fbd71a99ebc2 Author: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 20 18:57:40 2021 +0200 Revert "drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names" [ Upstream commit 842470c4e211f284a224842849b1fa81b130c154 ] This reverts commit b3484d2b03e4c940a9598aa841a52d69729c582a. That change attempted to improve the DRM drivers fbdev emulation device names to avoid having confusing names like "simpledrmdrmfb" in /proc/fb. But unfortunately, there are user-space programs such as pm-utils that match against the fbdev names and so broke after the mentioned commit. Since the names in /proc/fb are used by tools that consider it an uAPI, let's restore the old names even when this lead to silly names like the one mentioned above. Fixes: b3484d2b03e4 ("drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names") Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211020165740.3011927-1-javierm@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 8e7a124d6c5a3..22bf690910b25 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c @@ -1743,7 +1743,13 @@ void drm_fb_helper_fill_info(struct fb_info *info, sizes->fb_width, sizes->fb_height); info->par = fb_helper; - snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%s", + /* + * The DRM drivers fbdev emulation device name can be confusing if the + * driver name also has a "drm" suffix on it. Leading to names such as + * "simpledrmdrmfb" in /proc/fb. Unfortunately, it's an uAPI and can't + * be changed due user-space tools (e.g: pm-utils) matching against it. + */ + snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%sdrmfb", fb_helper->dev->driver->name); }