The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots.
But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display hardware is already present. Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahv...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> --- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c index edca3703b964..76325c07cf0c 100644 --- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c +++ drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c @@ -351,6 +351,12 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) char *option = NULL; efi_memory_desc_t md; + 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 drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c index 62f0ded70681..55c1f54d7663 100644 --- drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c +++ drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c @@ -407,6 +407,12 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct simplefb_par *par; struct resource *mem; + 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; -- 2.33.1