[PATCH v2 0/2] video: A couple of fixes for the vga16fb driver

Maxime Ripard maxime at cerno.tech
Tue Jan 11 13:16:01 UTC 2022


Hi,

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> This patch series contains two fixes for the vga16fb driver. I looked at
> the driver due a regression reported [0], caused by commit d391c5827107
> ("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support").
> 
> The mentioned commit didn't change any logic but just moved the platform
> device registration that matches the vesafb and efifb drivers to happen
> later. And this caused the vga16fb driver to be probed even in machines
> that don't have an EGA or VGA video adapter.
> 
> This is a v2 of the patch series that addresses issues pointed out by
> Geert Uytterhoeven.
> 
> Patch #1 is fixing the wrong check to determine if either EGA or VGA is
> used and patch #2 adds a check to the driver to only be loaded for EGA
> and VGA 16 color graphic cards.

For both patches,

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>

Maxime
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