Re: [PATCH 21/21] fbdev: Make registered_fb[] private to fbmem.c

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-04T08:31:11Z

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:50 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Well except when the olpc dcon fbdev driver is enabled, that thing
> digs around in there in rather unfixable ways.

Can't the actual frame buffer driver (which one?) used on olpc export
a pointer to its fb_info?

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -48,10 +48,14 @@
> static DEFINE_MUTEX(registration_lock);
>
> struct fb_info *registered_fb[FB_MAX] __read_mostly;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(registered_fb);
> -
> int num_registered_fb __read_mostly;
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OLPC_DCON)

CONFIG_FB_OLPC_DCON (everywhere), cfr. the build failure reported
by the robot.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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