[PATCH 05/11] video/aperture: Only kick vgacon when the pdev is decoding vga

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Jan 11 15:41:06 UTC 2023


Otherwise it's bit silly, and we might throw out the driver for the
screen the user is actually looking at. I haven't found a bug report
for this case yet, but we did get bug reports for the analog case
where we're throwing out the efifb driver.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216303
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/video/aperture.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/aperture.c b/drivers/video/aperture.c
index 3d8c925c7365..6f351a58f6c6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/aperture.c
+++ b/drivers/video/aperture.c
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ int aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(struct pci_dev *pdev, const char *na
 			return ret;
 	}
 
+	if (!primary)
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon,
 	 * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over.
-- 
2.39.0



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