Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to drm_fbdev_generic_setup()

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Mon May 02 2022 - 15:41:37 EST


On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 09:28:45PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 5/2/22 20:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:15:16PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> On 5/2/22 18:55, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>>> drop the depth option to drm_fbdev_generic_setup() ? There's a FIXME
> >>>> comment in drm_fbdev_generic_setup() that could be related.
> >>>
> >>> A FIXME makes sense, I'll add that to when posting a v3.
> >>
> >> There's actually a FIXME already in drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), so it's
> >> a documented issue [0]:
> >
> > That's what I meant by "there's a FIXME" :-) It doesn't have to be
> > addressed by this series, but it would be good to fix it.
>
> doh, I misread your original email. Yes, it's the same issue as you
> said and something that I plan to look at some point as a follow-up.
>
> I hope that we could just replace fbcon with a kms/systemd-consoled/foo
> user-space implementation before fixing all the stuff in the DRM fbdev
> emulation layer :)

If you can do that, I'll provide champagne :-)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart