On 8/30/24 12:16, Helge Deller wrote:
On 8/30/24 11:45, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
Introduce a device-managed variant of register_framebuffer() which
automatically unregisters the framebuffer on device destruction.
This can simplify the error handling and resource management in drivers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
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This is a fixed resend of [0], which was broken.
Thanks to Bert [1], and Chaitanya Kumar [2]
for reporting the issue.
[0]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/sj1pr11mb612925c1c533c09f8f62f7cbb9...@sj1pr11mb6129.namprd11.prod.outlook.com/
I've applied this patch to the fbdev git tree.
Please double check at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git/log/?h=for-next
Can you please check if this fixes this new report too:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fbdev&m=172500784802901&w=2
Please ignore this ^^^. You already mentioned this one above.
Helge
Helge, I didn't document the function devm_unregister_framebuffer() as
it is only an internal helper and will ever only used by one user,
similar to other helpers in fbmem.c.
Ok.
Helge
