[PATCH] [correction] load fbcon from drm_kms_helper

Florian Mickler florian at mickler.org
Wed Jan 12 03:46:16 PST 2011


Hi David!

Did you see this patch? 
I was wondering what you think about it... 

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:39:22 -0600
David Fries <david at fries.net> wrote:

> Kconfig says fbcon is required by drm_kms_helper.  If radeon, fbcon,
> and drm_kms_helper are all modules, radeon is auto loaded (by PCI id?),
> drm_kms_helper is loaded because of the module dependency, but fbcon
> isn't loaded leaving the console unusable.  Since fbcon is required
> and there isn't an explicit module dependency, request the module
> to be loaded from drm_kms_helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Fries <david at fries.net>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org


Regards,
Flo


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