Patch "drm/vmwgfx: respect 'nomodeset'" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "drm/vmwgfx: respect 'nomodeset'" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/vmwgfx: respect 'nomodeset'

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-vmwgfx-respect-nomodeset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 96c5d076f0a5e2023ecdb44d8261f87641ee71e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:00:47 -0400
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: respect 'nomodeset'

From: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>

commit 96c5d076f0a5e2023ecdb44d8261f87641ee71e0 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  *
  **************************************************************************/
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
 
 #include <drm/drmP.h>
 #include "vmwgfx_drv.h"
@@ -1538,6 +1539,12 @@ static int vmw_probe(struct pci_dev *pde
 static int __init vmwgfx_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE
+	if (vgacon_text_force())
+		return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+
 	ret = drm_pci_init(&driver, &vmw_pci_driver);
 	if (ret)
 		DRM_ERROR("Failed initializing DRM.\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robdclark@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/drm-vmwgfx-respect-nomodeset.patch