Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT and FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT flags

From: Thomas Zimmermann
Date: Fri Jul 14 2023 - 06:24:13 EST


Hi

Am 14.07.23 um 12:04 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Remove the unused flags FBINFO_DEFAULT and FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from
fbdev and drivers, as briefly discussed at [1]. Both flags were maybe
useful when fbdev had special handling for driver modules. With
commit 376b3ff54c9a ("fbdev: Nuke FBINFO_MODULE"), they are both 0
and have no further effect.

Patches 1 to 7 remove FBINFO_DEFAULT from drivers. Patches 2 to 5
split this by the way the fb_info struct is being allocated. All flags
are cleared to zero during the allocation.

Patches 8 to 16 do the same for FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT. Patch 8 fixes
an actual bug in how arch/sh uses the token for struct fb_videomode,
which is unrelated.

Patch 17 removes both flag constants from <linux/fb.h> and patch 18
documents the zero'ed memory returned by framebuffer_alloc().

v3:
* sh: include board name in commit message (Adrian)
* docs: reword text (Miguel)

Thanks for the update!

fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers
fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers
fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers
fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers

I wasn't happy about this either. But I could not come up with a description that fits into the 74-char limit for each commit. They only differ in the method of memory allocation. Do you have any ideas?


Four patches with the exact same one-line summary. Please make them
unique.

fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers
fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers

Two patches with the exact same one-line summary. Please make them
unique.

Same problem here.

Best regards
Thomas


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert


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