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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Frederich <jfrederich@gmail.com>,
	Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>,
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>,
	Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] fbdev: Make registered_fb[] private to fbmem.c
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 09:30:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUm76tT6u+i=A50ffh=k8hX5kgoMqH=t_wfHqH95nVOPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220131210552.482606-22-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:50 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Well except when the olpc dcon fbdev driver is enabled, that thing
> digs around in there in rather unfixable ways.

Can't the actual frame buffer driver (which one?) used on olpc export
a pointer to its fb_info?

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -48,10 +48,14 @@
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(registration_lock);
>
>  struct fb_info *registered_fb[FB_MAX] __read_mostly;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(registered_fb);
> -
>  int num_registered_fb __read_mostly;
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OLPC_DCON)

CONFIG_FB_OLPC_DCON (everywhere), cfr. the build failure reported
by the robot.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 21:05 [PATCH 00/21] some fbcon patches, mostly locking Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01 10:19   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-02-01 10:45     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-02-01 10:32   ` Helge Deller
2022-02-01 14:01   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-02-01 14:47   ` Jani Nikula
2022-02-01 14:54   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-01 20:47   ` Dave Airlie
2022-02-02 11:10   ` Daniel Stone
2022-02-02 11:18   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2022-02-02 11:31   ` Maxime Ripard
2022-02-02 13:48     ` Alex Deucher
2022-02-03 20:25   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 14:12   ` Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 02/21] fbcon: Resurrect fbcon accelerated scrolling code Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 03/21] fbcon: Restore fbcon scrolling acceleration Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01 10:16   ` Helge Deller
2022-02-01 10:17     ` Helge Deller
2022-02-01 10:36     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01 11:01       ` Helge Deller
2022-02-01 13:45         ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01 14:52           ` Helge Deller
2022-02-01 16:30             ` Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 04/21] fbcon: delete a few unneeded forward decl Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 20:30   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-04 10:00   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 05/21] fbcon: Introduce wrapper for console->fb_info lookup Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 21:25   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 06/21] fbcon: delete delayed loading code Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 20:45   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:42     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:09       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 07/21] fbdev/sysfs: Fix locking Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 21:27   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 08/21] fbcon: Use delayed work for cursor Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 09/21] fbcon: Replace FBCON_FLAGS_INIT with a boolean Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01 10:37   ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-02-03 13:47     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-03 21:30   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 10/21] fb: Delete fb_info->queue Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 21:31   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:46     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:22       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 11/21] fbcon: Extract fbcon_open/release helpers Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 21:15   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-03 21:32     ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:48     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:24       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 19:51         ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 12/21] fbcon: Ditch error handling for con2fb_release_oldinfo Daniel Vetter
2022-02-03 21:16   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 13/21] fbcon: move more common code into fb_open() Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 23:31   ` [Intel-gfx] " kernel test robot
2022-02-04 19:35   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:53     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:25       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 14/21] fbcon: use lock_fb_info in fbcon_open/release Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 19:39   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 15/21] fbcon: Consistently protect deferred_takeover with console_lock() Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 19:45   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 16/21] fbcon: Move console_lock for register/unlink/unregister Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 19:54   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:56     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 17/21] fbcon: Move more code into fbcon_release Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 19:55   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 18/21] fbcon: untangle fbcon_exit Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 20:06   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 13:58     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:27       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 19/21] fbcon: Maintain a private array of fb_info Daniel Vetter
2022-02-04 20:15   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 14:03     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 18:55       ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 20/21] Revert "fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered" Daniel Vetter
2022-01-31 21:05 ` [PATCH 21/21] fbdev: Make registered_fb[] private to fbmem.c Daniel Vetter
2022-02-01  8:13   ` [Intel-gfx] " kernel test robot
2022-02-04  8:30   ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2022-02-08 14:04     ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 20:59       ` Daniel Vetter
2022-02-08 19:00   ` Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-08 20:56     ` Daniel Vetter

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