From 291a8658324c159bc90f27050a02719594d4adc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 20:23:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered" This reverts commit ff33729587d2a6793ed44a73de0a4da5a7b3ddf1. With commit 889ae79e9a8c572479f34741d8315ffcbfd494b0 Author: Thomas Zimmermann Date: Tue Jan 25 10:12:18 2022 +0100 fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal this should be fixed properly and we can remove this somewhat hackish check here (e.g. this won't catch drm drivers if fbdev emulation isn't enabled). Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Zack Rusin Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Zack Rusin Cc: Hans de Goede Cc: Ilya Trukhanov Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Peter Jones Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220607182338.344270-5-javierm@redhat.com --- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 11 ----------- drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c | 11 ----------- 2 files changed, 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c index ea42ba6445b2d..edca3703b9640 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c @@ -351,17 +351,6 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) char *option = NULL; efi_memory_desc_t md; - /* - * Generic drivers must not be registered if a framebuffer exists. - * If a native driver was probed, the display hardware was already - * taken and attempting to use the system framebuffer is dangerous. - */ - if (num_registered_fb > 0) { - dev_err(&dev->dev, - "efifb: a framebuffer is already registered\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } - if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI || pci_dev_disabled) return -ENODEV; diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c index 94fc9c6d04113..0ef41173325a0 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c @@ -413,17 +413,6 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct simplefb_par *par; struct resource *res, *mem; - /* - * Generic drivers must not be registered if a framebuffer exists. - * If a native driver was probed, the display hardware was already - * taken and attempting to use the system framebuffer is dangerous. - */ - if (num_registered_fb > 0) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, - "simplefb: a framebuffer is already registered\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } - if (fb_get_options("simplefb", NULL)) return -ENODEV; -- 2.39.5