From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:42:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag Message-Id: <20180911074228.GI19774@phenom.ffwll.local> List-Id: References: <20180822085405.10787-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20180910124845eucas1p1b51674cd657757aadf5138e277e57ebe~TCsHYsLqt1779917799eucas1p18@eucas1p1.samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <20180910124845eucas1p1b51674cd657757aadf5138e277e57ebe~TCsHYsLqt1779917799eucas1p18@eucas1p1.samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Kapshuk , Daniel Vetter , Intel Graphics Development , LKML , DRI Development , Hans de Goede , Ben Skeggs , Greg Kroah-Hartman , nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Daniel Vetter , David Lechner , Thierry Reding , Kees Cook On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On 08/22/2018 10:54 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > This was only added for the drm's fbdev emulation support, so that it > > would try harder to show the Oops. > > > > Unfortunately this never really worked reliably, and in practice ended > > up pushing the real Oops off the screen due to plentyfull locking, > > sleep-while-atomic and other issues. So we removed all that support > > from the fbdev emulation a while back. Aside: We've also removed the > > kgdb support, for similar reasons. > > > > Since it's such a small patch I figured I don't split this up into the > > usual 3-phase removal. > > > > Cc: Ben Skeggs > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Cc: Hans de Goede > > Cc: Daniel Vetter > > Cc: Alexander Kapshuk > > Cc: Kees Cook > > Cc: Thierry Reding > > Cc: David Lechner > > Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org > > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter > > Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next? -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch