Re: [PATCH] sm501fb: Silence a coccinelle script warning.

[Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>]

Le 14/06/2017 à 12:54, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, May 08, 2017 08:11:16 AM Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> According to surrounding goto, it is likely that 'goto err_probed_panel' is
>> expected here.
>> This change is just done in order to silence some coccinelle scripts
>> which try to detect wrongly ordered goto.
>>
>> If 'info->fb[HEAD_PANEL]' and' 'info->fb[HEAD_CRT]' are both NULL, this
>> means that no 'framebuffer_alloc' has been performed, so 'goto err_alloc'
>> looks fine.
>> Anyway, it is also harmless in this case to call 'framebuffer_release'.
>> The code looks more straight forward.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> It seems that the code for supporting only selected framebuffers
> (only HEAD_PANEL fb or only HEAD_CRT fb) is broken anyway as at least
> the suspend/resume support assumes that both framebuffers are always
> present. Also all sm501fb driver users always try try to initialize
> both framebuffers. Therefore I would prefer the removal of non-working
> individual framebuffers support (the code that your patch modifies
> would be removed as well). Could you please look into it?
Thx for the feedback, but no, I won't be able to go further.
I don't know the code enough in this area.
Sorry.

Best regards,
CJ

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