[PATCH v2] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Tue May 25 2021 - 11:13:21 EST


Framebuffer devices that are registered by DRM drivers for fbdev emulation
have a "drmfb" suffix in their name. But makes them to be quite confusing
for drivers that already have "drm" in their name:

$ cat /proc/fb
0 rockchipdrmdrmfb

$ cat /proc/fb
0 simpledrmdrmfb

Also, there isn't a lot of value in adding these "drmfb" suffices to their
names, since users shouldn't really care if the FB devices were registered
by a real fbdev driver or a DRM driver using the fbdev emulation.

What programs should be interested about is if there's a DRM device, and
there are better ways to query that info than reading this procfs entry.

So let's just remove the suffix, which leads to much better device names:

$ cat /proc/fb
0 rockchipdrm

$ cat /proc/fb
0 simpledrm

Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Just remove the "drmfb" suffix instead of using a different one (tzimmermann).

drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index f6baa204612..d77a24507d3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ void drm_fb_helper_fill_info(struct fb_info *info,
sizes->fb_width, sizes->fb_height);

info->par = fb_helper;
- snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%sdrmfb",
+ snprintf(info->fix.id, sizeof(info->fix.id), "%s",
fb_helper->dev->driver->name);

}
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