[PATCH] drm/mxsfb: rename driver to mxsfb-drm

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Wed Jun 13 07:16:56 UTC 2018


On 13.06.2018 01:08, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 06:01 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> There are two drivers for the LCDIF/MXSFB peripheral. If the DRM
>>> and fbdev are compiled in, the registration of the second driver
>>> fails:
>>>   mxs-dma 33000000.dma-apbh: initialized
>>>   mxsfb 30730000.lcdif: 30730000.lcdif supply lcd not found, using dummy regulator
>>>   mxsfb 30730000.lcdif: initialized
>>>   Error: Driver 'mxsfb' is already registered, aborting...
>>>
>>> Avoid driver name conflict with MXS fbdev driver by renaming the
>>> more recently added DRM driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
>>
>> Yes, this driver name collision is annoying:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
>>
> Why dont we just kill the old fbdev driver instead ?

The config is outside of my direct control, it's a distro kernel...

Or what do you mean exactly? Send a patch to remove the fbdev driver?

--
Stefan


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