Nouveau - Sep 2018 - [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Drop FBINFO_CAN_FORCE_OUTPUT flag

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

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

On 09/11/2018 09:42 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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 at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>>> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>> Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>>> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>>> Cc: David Lechner <david at lechnology.com>
>>> Cc: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
>>> Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> 
> Ack for merging the entire series through drm-misc-next?
Yes, thanks for taking care of this.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics