[RFC 00/21] drm: fb emulation: Step 3: Remove FB_KMS_HELPER config from drivers

[Archit Taneja]

On 07/14/2015 01:32 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:01:51PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/13/2015 09:07 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:30:34AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Archit Taneja <architt at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>>>> With the top level DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION option, drivers don't need to
>>>>> select DRM_FB_KMS_HELPER or other FB related config options in the
>>>>> driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even if FBDEV_EMULATION isn't select, the stubbed out versions of
>>>>> the drm_fb_helper functions will be called.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are some drivers which still need some FB stuff even after
>>>>> these changes. They are qxl, udl and nouveau. These are handled a bit
>>>>> differently compared to the other patches.
>>>>
>>>> Series is:
>>>> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>>>
>>> Archit for merging I think I'll just keep the current set of patches I
>>> have for testing (well until there's a real bug discovered). Can you
>>> please collect all the acks/r-bs/t-d when resending so I don't have to
>>> digg them out when we merge the final versions of these?
>>>
>>
>> Sure. I'll keep a track of this.
>>
>> Speaking of bugs, there was one thing I noticed in the series which I
>> am not sure about.
>>
>> One of the new helpers wraps around framebuffer_alloc(). Most drivers
>> tend to pass the drm_device's dev pointer to this, and this is what I
>> do in the helper too.
>>
>> But some drivers(nouveau, radeon, qxl and some more) pass their
>> pci_dev's dev pointer.
>
> As far as I can tell, for all PCI drivers the drm_device's dev pointer
> is set to the pci_dev's dev pointer (via drm_get_pci_dev()), so this
> shouldn't be changing anything at all.

Thanks for pointing this out. This is a non-issue, then.

Archit

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