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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 08:53:56PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 21.05.21 um 19:18 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> > On 5/21/21 6:53 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > >
> > > > So what with all the drivers which do _not_ have drm in their name? Also
> > > > I'm never sure how much these are uapi or not ...
> > >
> >
> > That someone could threat as an uapi is a fair point indeed.
> > > Why do we need a suffix anyway?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I thought the same and was torn about posting a patch to just remove
> > the suffix. I don't think users care that much if is a fb device from a
> > fbdev driver or a DRM driver using the fbdev emulation.
>
> Yup. I don't see how anything in userspace would depend on the exact name;
> especially since fbdev emulation only provides basic features. (I'd welcome
> a counter examples that proves me wrong.)
>
> IMHO we can risk it to remove the suffix entirely. But that needs an ack
> from Daniel or Dave.

If you guys with your distro hats on all think it doesn't matter, then
yeah I'm all for dropping the somewhat silly -drm or drmfb suffixes. I
think that was just way back so it's easier to know you've loaded the
right driver, back when there was both drm and native fbdev drivers
around. But now I think for new hw there's only drm, so should be all
fine.
-Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch

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