[PATCH 1/2] staging/vboxvideo: Don't set FBINFO_MISC_ALWAYS_SETPAR

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Jan 15 10:27:54 UTC 2019


It's a debug hack flag useful to work around driver bugs. That's not a
good idea for a new driver. Especially for a new drm driver.

Aside: the fbdev support should probably be converted over to the new
generic fbdev support.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_fb.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_fb.c b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_fb.c
index 2181c36c19ab..1da4cb7647b8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_fb.c
@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ int vboxfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 	fb = &vbox->afb.base;
 	helper->fb = fb;
 
-	/*
-	 * The last flag forces a mode set on VT switches even if the kernel
-	 * does not think it is needed.
-	 */
-	info->flags = FBINFO_MISC_ALWAYS_SETPAR;
 	info->fbops = &vboxfb_ops;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.20.1



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