[GIT PULL] fbdev late fixes for v6.12-rc5
Linus Torvalds
torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Fri Oct 25 18:31:58 UTC 2024
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 09:04, Helge Deller <deller at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> It's mostly about build warning fixes with cornercase CONFIG settings
> and one big patch which removes the now unused da8xx fbdev driver.
So I pulled this, but only later noticed that some of the Kconfig
"fixes" are anything but.
At least commit 447794e44744 ("fbdev: sstfb: Make CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
optional") is not fixing anything, and very questionable.
For no reason at all does it seem to enable 30-year old hardware in a
new configuration.
There were no build issues before, the build issues that existed were
*introduced* by broken early versions of this patch.
Does anybody even *have* that hardware? Why were those pointless changes made?
Sure, the Voodoo1 was the bomb back in 1996 if you wanted to run
hw-accelerated Quake, but in 2024, this change should have had more
explanation for why anybody would care about the CONFIG_FB_DEVICE
dependency.
And in no case should it have been marked as a "fix".
Linus
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