[PATCH 02/20] drm/arc: Use drm_fbdev_generic_setup()

[Noralf Trønnes]

Den 01.10.2018 09.56, skrev Alexey Brodkin:
> Hi Noralf,
>
> On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 12:42 +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>> Den 28.09.2018 09.34, skrev Alexey Brodkin:
>>> Hi Noralf,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 15:46 +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>>>> The CMA helper is already using the drm_fb_helper_generic_probe part of
>>>> the generic fbdev emulation. This patch makes full use of the generic
>>>> fbdev emulation by using its drm_client callbacks. This means that
>>>> drm_mode_config_funcs->output_poll_changed and drm_driver->lastclose are
>>>> now handled by the emulation code. Additionally fbdev unregister happens
>>>> automatically on drm_dev_unregister().
>>>>
>>>> The drm_fbdev_generic_setup() call is put after drm_dev_register() in the
>>>> driver. This is done to highlight the fact that fbdev emulation is an
>>>> internal client that makes use of the driver, it is not part of the
>>>> driver as such. If fbdev setup fails, an error is printed, but the driver
>>>> succeeds probing.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
>>> Thanks for doing that!
>>> Quite some code removed from the driver and still FBDEV emulation works :)
>> Yeah we're down to one line of code in the driver to get fbdev emulation
>> which is quite nice a think :D
> Exactly!
>
> And just to not lose this nice improvement - do I need to pull this through
> my tree or entire series will be merged in main DRM tree?

I apply the patches to drm-misc-next when I get acks.
Unless the maintainer wants to take it himself.
So, yes I'll apply this one :-)

Noralf.