[PATCH 1/2] video/fbdev: Always built-in video= cmdline parsing

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Sep 30 04:53:16 PDT 2014


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/14 15:52, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> In drm/i915 we want to get at the video= cmdline modes even when we
>> don't have fbdev support enabled, so that users can always override
>> the kernel's initial mode selection.
>>
>> But that gives us a direct depency upon the parsing code in the fbdev
>> subsystem. Since it's so little code just extract these 2 functions
>> and always build them in.
>>
>> Whiel at it fix the checkpatch fail in this code.
>>
>> v2: Also move fb_mode_option. Spotted by the kbuild.
>>
>> v3: Review from Geert:
>> - Keep the old copyright notice from fb_mem.c, although I have no
>> idea what exactly applies.
>> - Only compile this when needed.
>>
>> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
>> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
>> Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>
>> --
>>
>> I prefer if we can merge this through drm-next since we'll use it
>> there in follow-up patches.
>> -Daniel
>> ---
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig           |   4 ++
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile     |   1 +
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_cmdline.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c      |  92 ----------------------------
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c     |   3 -
>>  5 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_cmdline.c
>
> Sorry for late response.
>
> Looks fine for me, and I'm fine merging it via drm-next.
>
> Acked-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>

Well totally forgotten about this one here - I even forgot to drop the
"pls ack this" text from the commit message before sending the pull
request to Dave :(

Anyway, thanks for having a look.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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