From: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:58:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23b693d5-0335-8f42-a206-65e170ab6e52@leemhuis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211111092053.1328304-1-javierm@redhat.com>
On 11.11.21 10:20, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer
> and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots.
>
> But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the
> generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display
> hardware is already present.
>
> Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> ---
TLDR: Javier, in case you need to send an improved patch, could you
please add this before the 'Reported-by:'
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110200253.rfudkt3edbd3nsyj@lahvuun/
And if the patch is already good to go: could the subsystem maintainer
please add it when applying?
Long story: hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.
Thanks for working on a fix for a regression I'm keeping an eye on.
There is one small detail that could be improved: the commit message
would benefit from a link to the regression report, for reasons
explained in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. To quote:
```
If related discussions or any other background information behind the
change can be found on the web, add 'Link:' tags pointing to it. In case
your patch fixes a bug, for example, add a tag with a URL referencing
the report in the mailing list archives or a bug tracker;
```
This concept is old, but the text was reworked recently to make this use
case for the Link: tag clearer. For details see:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/1f57bd42b77c
Yes, that "Link:" is not really crucial; but it's good to have if
someone needs to look into the backstory of this change sometime in the
future. But I care for a different reason. I'm tracking this regression
(and others) with regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot. This
bot will notice if a patch with a Link: tag to a tracked regression gets
posted and record that, which allowed anyone looking into the regression
to quickly gasp the current status from regzbot's webui
(https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot ) or its reports. The
bot will also notice if a commit with a Link: tag to a regression report
is applied by Linus and then automatically mark the regression as
resolved then.
IOW: this tag makes my life a regression tracker a lot easier, as I
otherwise have to tell regzbot manually about the fix. ;-)
Ciao, Thorsten (while carrying his Linux kernel regression tracker hat)
#regzbot ^backmonitor
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110200253.rfudkt3edbd3nsyj@lahvuun/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-11 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-11 9:20 [PATCH] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-11-11 9:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-11-11 11:18 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-11-11 9:58 ` Thorsten Leemhuis [this message]
2021-11-11 10:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-11-11 10:25 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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