[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: Wrap the preallocated BIOS framebuffer and preserve for KMS fbcon v7

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:44:06AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:43:50PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > This is just fixing up existing code to use the new field name, so no
> > functional change.  I see what you mean about splitting out the field
> > change, but now that would be a pain :/
> 
> Yeah, the switch from struct to pointer for ifbdev->fb would be neat as a
> separate patch, but also real pain to split out now.

I'm inclined to say that we actually need the split-out conversion to a
pointer. I might have lost my traces somewhere in this maze, but I think
with the current patches we can have a NULL deref on ifbdev->fb in
intelfb_create. Not sure, but a split-out patch would definitely help ;-)
-Daniel
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