This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit to the 5.10-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: drm-remove-drm_fb_helper_modinit.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bf22c9ec39da90ce866d5f625d616f28bc733dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:13:23 +0100 Subject: drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit bf22c9ec39da90ce866d5f625d616f28bc733dc1 upstream. drm_fb_helper_modinit has a lot of boilerplate for what is not very simple functionality. Just open code it in the only caller using IS_ENABLED and IS_MODULE, and skip the find_module check as a request_module is harmless if the module is already loaded (and not other caller has this find_module check either). Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper_internal.h | 10 ---------- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 21 --------------------- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper_common.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper_internal.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper_internal.h @@ -32,16 +32,6 @@ #include <drm/drm_encoder.h> #include <drm/drm_modes.h> -/* drm_fb_helper.c */ -#ifdef CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION -int drm_fb_helper_modinit(void); -#else -static inline int drm_fb_helper_modinit(void) -{ - return 0; -} -#endif - /* drm_dp_aux_dev.c */ #ifdef CONFIG_DRM_DP_AUX_CHARDEV int drm_dp_aux_dev_init(void); --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c @@ -2271,24 +2271,3 @@ void drm_fbdev_generic_setup(struct drm_ drm_client_register(&fb_helper->client); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fbdev_generic_setup); - -/* The Kconfig DRM_KMS_HELPER selects FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE (if !EXPERT) - * but the module doesn't depend on any fb console symbols. At least - * attempt to load fbcon to avoid leaving the system without a usable console. - */ -int __init drm_fb_helper_modinit(void) -{ -#if defined(CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_MODULE) && !defined(CONFIG_EXPERT) - const char name[] = "fbcon"; - struct module *fbcon; - - mutex_lock(&module_mutex); - fbcon = find_module(name); - mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); - - if (!fbcon) - request_module_nowait(name); -#endif - return 0; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_modinit); --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper_common.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper_common.c @@ -64,19 +64,18 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(edid_firmware, static int __init drm_kms_helper_init(void) { - int ret; + /* + * The Kconfig DRM_KMS_HELPER selects FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE (if !EXPERT) + * but the module doesn't depend on any fb console symbols. At least + * attempt to load fbcon to avoid leaving the system without a usable + * console. + */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION) && + IS_MODULE(CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE) && + !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXPERT)) + request_module_nowait("fbcon"); - /* Call init functions from specific kms helpers here */ - ret = drm_fb_helper_modinit(); - if (ret < 0) - goto out; - - ret = drm_dp_aux_dev_init(); - if (ret < 0) - goto out; - -out: - return ret; + return drm_dp_aux_dev_init(); } static void __exit drm_kms_helper_exit(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-5.10/drm-remove-drm_fb_helper_modinit.patch