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

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jun 12 23:08:59 UTC 2018


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 ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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