Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

Hello,

On 5/25/21 3:34 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:

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>>
>> If you guys with your distro hats on all think it doesn't matter, then
>> yeah I'm all for dropping the somewhat silly -drm or drmfb suffixes. I
>> think that was just way back so it's easier to know you've loaded the
>> right driver, back when there was both drm and native fbdev drivers
>> around. But now I think for new hw there's only drm, so should be all
>> fine.
> 
> Suse doesn't use fbdev, except for some outliers; most notably hypervfb 
> and generic efifb/vesafb. Both are now being replaced with drm code. 
>  From what I've seen, it's the same for other distros. And X11 checks 
> for the existence of device files anyway IIRC.
Yes, I believe is the same for us.

I'll post a patch to just remove the suffix then. Thanks you both
for the feedback.

> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
>> -Daniel
>>
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer
New Platform Technologies Enablement team
RHEL Engineering