Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:27:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names" | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> |
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Hello Johannes,
Sorry for the late response. I was on holidays for a week and just came back.
On 12/4/21 13:41, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> This reverts commit b3484d2b03e4c940a9598aa841a52d69729c582a. >> >> That change attempted to improve the DRM drivers fbdev emulation device >> names to avoid having confusing names like "simpledrmdrmfb" in /proc/fb. >> >> But unfortunately, there are user-space programs such as pm-utils that >> match against the fbdev names and so broke after the mentioned commit. >> >> Since the names in /proc/fb are used by tools that consider it an uAPI, >> let's restore the old names even when this lead to silly names like the >> one mentioned above. > > I would like to ask about the fate of this patch. It doesn't > seem to have been picked up by anyone, does it? >
Thanks for the reminder. I've just pushed this to the drm-misc-fixes branch.
> > Thanks, > Johannes > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
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