[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Mention which driver is taking over the VGA console

Tvrtko Ursulin tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com
Mon Oct 30 08:39:53 UTC 2017


On 27/10/2017 22:33, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Currently there is a rather bland,
> 
> [    4.987589] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver

I had some patches which replaced this with [i915], but then Robert 
Bragg had some even better patches to improve the DRM logging in 
general. It might be best to resurrect those rather than use different 
logging APIs throughput the code depending on the desired output?

Regards,

Tvrtko

> for when we take over the console. Let's put a (device) name on that.
> If we opt for DRM_DEV_INFO we get
> 
> [    5.071879] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:i915_kick_out_vgacon] Replacing VGA console driver
> 
> which is a little ugly side for a user message. So just use a plain
> dev_info() instead:
> 
> [    4.948501] i915 0000:00:02.0: Replacing VGA console driver
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> index af745749509c..c194dfa11125 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
> @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>   {
>   	int ret = 0;
>   
> -	DRM_INFO("Replacing VGA console driver\n");
> +	dev_info(dev_priv->drm.dev, "Replacing VGA console driver\n");
>   
>   	console_lock();
>   	if (con_is_bound(&vga_con))
> 


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