From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/qxl: return -ENODEV for unsupported revisions
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 08:34:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82a6538d-a401-403b-b10d-0abae6ca5e8a@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930222214.69443-1-matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
Hi
Am 01.10.26 um 00:22 schrieb Matheus Alves de Almeida:
> The qxl driver currently returns -EINVAL when the emulated qxl revision
> is too old. This is not a driver initialization failure but rather a
> match rejection, which should return -ENODEV.
>
> Change the value returned when the qxl revision is below 4 to -ENODEV.
> Switch the xf86-video-qxl suggestion log to be info level, as this is
> not an error.
>
> Fixes: f64122c1f6ad ("drm: add new QXL driver. (v1.4)")
> Signed-off-by: Matheus Alves de Almeida <matheus.aalmeida@inf.ufrgs.br>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c
> index 97df9d3d6..35b83b1bb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_drv.c
> @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ qxl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> int ret;
>
> if (pdev->revision < 4) {
> - DRM_ERROR("qxl too old, doesn't support client_monitors_config,"
> - " use xf86-video-qxl in user mode");
> - return -EINVAL; /* TODO: ENODEV ? */
> + dev_info(&pdev->dev,
> + "qxl too old, doesn't support client_monitors_config, use xf86-video-qxl in user mode\n");
This call should become dev_err() instead.
Best regards
Thomas
> + return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> qdev = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&pdev->dev, &qxl_driver,
--
--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Frankenstr. 146, 90461 Nürnberg, Germany, www.suse.com
GF: Stefan Gaiser, Jochen Jaser, Abhinav Puri, (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 22:22 [PATCH] drm/qxl: return -ENODEV for unsupported revisions Matheus Alves de Almeida
2026-09-30 22:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-01 6:34 ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
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