Revert "fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic->chip driver switch"
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Always free the console font when deinitializing the framebuffer
console. Subsequent framebuffer consoles will then use the default
font. Rely on userspace to load any user-configured font for these
consoles.
Commit
8bd541dd6a27 ("fbcon: don't lose the console font across
generic->chip driver switch") was introduced to work around losing
the font during graphics-device handover. [1][2] It kept a dangling
pointer with the font data between loading the two consoles, which is
fairly adventurous hack. It also never covered cases when the other
consoles, such as VGA text mode, where involved.
The problem has meanwhile been solved in userspace. Systemd comes
with a udev rule that re-installs the configured font when a console
comes up. [3] So the kernel workaround can be removed.
This also removes one of the two special cases triggered by setting
FBINFO_MISC_FIRMWARE in an fbdev driver.
Tested during device handover from efifb and simpledrm to radeon. Udev
reloads the configured console font for the new driver's terminal.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074624
Link: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/vconsole/90-vconsole.rules.in?h=v222
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221219160516.23436-3-tzimmermann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>