Re: [PATCH v3] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered

2021-11-11 Thread Ilya Trukhanov
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:57:57PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > 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

[PATCH v3] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered

2021-11-11 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
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