On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:58:51PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbar...@virtuousgeek.org> > wrote: > > So in the unlikely event that the fb helper code fails I don't want to > > fall over. > > > > But that shouldn't happen in practice. I only have the checks in place > > to catch when I failed to set the fbdev field in one path (which is now > > fixed) > > Imo if a core piece of the driver fails to initialize we should just > fail driver loading. We've had tons of crazy lore around contexts > failing, ppgtt failing and other similar stuff, and I think it just > makes the normal code more fragile with no real gain. > > If you think something slips through the cracks maybe just throw a > BUG_ON in there instead.
I tripped over it earlier when I was disabling parts of the driver. I think allowing dev_priv->fbdev to be NULL fits nicely with your crusade against fbcon. (In fact it was quite fun to load the driver without modesetting as a headless accelerator...) -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
