[PATCH v3 0/6] Cleanups for the nomodeset kernel command line parameter logic

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2021, Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> On 11/8/21 13:50, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Am 08.11.21 um 13:15 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>>> There is a lot of historical baggage on this parameter. It is defined in
>>> the vgacon driver as nomodeset, but its set function is called text_mode()
>>> and the value queried with a function named vgacon_text_force().
>>>
>>> All this implies that it's about forcing text mode for VGA, yet it is not
>>> used in neither vgacon nor other console driver. The only users for these
>>> are DRM drivers, that check for the vgacon_text_force() return value to
>>> determine whether the driver should be loaded or not.
>>>
>>> That makes it quite confusing to read the code, because the variables and
>>> function names don't reflect what they actually do and also are not in the
>>> same subsystem as the drivers that make use of them.
>>>
>>> This patch-set attempts to cleanup the code by moving the nomodseset param
>>> to the DRM subsystem and do some renaming to make their intention clearer.
>>>
>>> This is a v3 of the patches, that address issues pointed out by Jani Nikula
>>> in v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/11/4/594
>>>
>>> Patch #1 and #2 are just trivial cleanups.
>>>
>>> Patch #3 moves the nomodeset boot option to the DRM subsystem and renames
>>> the variables and functions names.
>>>
>>> Patch #4 removes the relationship between the nomodeset parameter and the
>>> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE Kconfig symbol.
>> 
>> On patches 1 to 4
>> 
>> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>
>
> Thanks!
>  
>>>
>>> Patch #5 adds nomodeset to the kernel parameters documentation.
>>>
>>> Patch #6 improves the message when nomodeset is enabled to make it more
>>> accurate and less sensational.
>> 
>> See my comments on these patches.
>>
>
> Yes, agreed with your feedback on these. I'll improve it when posting a v4.

With the changes proposed by Thomas, the series is also

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>

In particular, it's fine to merge the i915 parts via whichever tree
suits you all best (I presume it's drm-misc).

I might have bikeshedded the drm_get_modeset() name and the choice of
drm_mode_config.h to place the declaration... but meh. The series is
definitely an improvement to the status quo.


BR,
Jani.


>
> Best regards, -- 
> Javier Martinez Canillas
> Linux Engineering
> Red Hat
>

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center