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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
	Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] DRM: Add KMS driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx SoCs
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:09:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190415160917.GF2665@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190316215944.GB11309@ravnborg.org>

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:59:44PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > +	ret = drm_fbdev_generic_setup(drm, 16);
> > +	if (ret) {
> > +		dev_err(dev, "Failed to init fbdev\n");
> > +		goto err_devclk_disable;
> > +	}
> fbdev is usually considered an optionl feature that do not prevent
> the display driver from loading.
> Consider what to do in the error case.

Drive-through comment: Totally ok to require this, failing here usually
means you have a driver bug somewhere. fbdev is optional as in Kconfig
optional, but people who enable it generally need it.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-15 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-15 17:06 [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: Add doc for the ingenic-drm driver Paul Cercueil
2019-03-15 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] dt-bindings: Add header for the ingenic-drm driver bindings Paul Cercueil
2019-03-15 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] DRM: Add KMS driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx SoCs Paul Cercueil
2019-03-16 21:59   ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-03-17  1:14     ` Paul Cercueil
2019-04-02 16:16     ` Paul Cercueil
2019-04-15 16:09     ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2019-03-16 12:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: Add doc for the ingenic-drm driver Paul Cercueil
2019-03-16 20:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-03-16 21:56   ` Paul Cercueil

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