[PATCH 00/21] drm: make fbdev support really optional

Tobias Jakobi tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jul 15 14:47:38 UTC 2016


Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 15 July 2016 at 14:37, Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>> Hello Emil,
>>
>> Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> On 15 July 2016 at 13:47, Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> as request by Daniel here (http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg112592.html) I went ahead and also cleaned up the other Kconfig files. I have mostly compile tested the changes on an ARMv7 system (COMPILE_TEST).
>>>>
>>> Yay :-) IIRC some drivers don't fully use the fb_helpers (for example
>>> vmwgfx still references the cfb_* API), so they should be updated as
>>> well.
>> I can only do this on ARM atm, so I suggest to just drop insufficient
>> patches.
>>
> Without checking (build and/or grep) it'll be a bit hard to figure out
> which patches are insufficient. At the end of the day it's up-to you
> and DRM maintainer(s).
I kind of was expecting this, so I asked Daniel on IRC if I was supposed
to only inspect the Kconfigs. Seems like this doesn't suffice in every
case. :(

- Tobias

> 
> Thanks for sorting out these. The negative diffstat is always appreciated ;-)
> -Emil
> 



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