Re: [PATCH v3] x86: sysfb: remove sysfb when probing real hw

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/19/2013 11:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/19/2013 03:13 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
>>> With CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y, probing real hw-drivers may result in
>>> resource-conflicts and drivers will refuse to load. A call to
>>> request_mem_region() will fail, if the region overlaps with the mem-region
>>> used by simplefb. The common desktop DRM drivers (intel, nouveau, radeon)
>>> are not affected as they don't reserve their resources, but some others
>>> do, including (nvidiafb, cirrus, ..).
>>
>> I have validated that this doesn't cause any regressions on the/a
>> non-x86 platform using simplefb, although given the main point of this
>> patch is to fix issues on x86, I'm rather hesitant to give a tested-by
>> tag in case someone looking back interprets it incorrectly:-)
> 
> Tested-on-ARM-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I suppose with CC: stable there's some precedent for a comment after the
tag, so perhaps:

Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> # on ARM only

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