Re: [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

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 <bskeggs@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> > Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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