[L] [PATCH 4/9] video/aperture: Only kick vgacon when the pdev is decoding vga
Kai-Heng Feng
kai.heng.feng at canonical.com
Wed Jul 26 08:19:42 UTC 2023
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2028749
Otherwise it's a bit silly, and we might throw out the driver for the
screen the user is actually looking at. I haven't found a bug report
for this case yet, but we did get bug reports for the analog case
where we're throwing out the efifb driver.
v2: Flip the check around to make it clear it's a special case for
kicking out the vgacon driver only (Thomas)
v4:
- fixes to commit message
- fix Daniel's S-o-b address
v5:
- add back an S-o-b tag with Daniel's Intel address
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216303
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230406132109.32050-5-tzimmermann@suse.de
(cherry picked from commit 7450cd235b45d43ee6f3c235f89e92623458175d)
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
---
drivers/video/aperture.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/aperture.c b/drivers/video/aperture.c
index d0eccc4ed60b..26bdba6b2725 100644
--- a/drivers/video/aperture.c
+++ b/drivers/video/aperture.c
@@ -342,13 +342,15 @@ int aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(struct pci_dev *pdev, const char *na
return ret;
}
- /*
- * WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon,
- * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over.
- */
- ret = vga_remove_vgacon(pdev);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
+ if (primary) {
+ /*
+ * WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon,
+ * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over.
+ */
+ ret = vga_remove_vgacon(pdev);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
return 0;
--
2.34.1
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