Message ID | 20230714075155.5686-1-tzimmermann@suse.de |
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Headers | show |
Series | fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT and FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT flags | expand |
Hi Thomas, On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote: > Remove the unused flags FBINFO_DEFAULT and FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from > fbdev and drivers, as briefly discussed at [1]. Both flags were maybe > useful when fbdev had special handling for driver modules. With > commit 376b3ff54c9a ("fbdev: Nuke FBINFO_MODULE"), they are both 0 > and have no further effect. > > Patches 1 to 7 remove FBINFO_DEFAULT from drivers. Patches 2 to 5 > split this by the way the fb_info struct is being allocated. All flags > are cleared to zero during the allocation. > > Patches 8 to 16 do the same for FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT. Patch 8 fixes > an actual bug in how arch/sh uses the token for struct fb_videomode, > which is unrelated. > > Patch 17 removes both flag constants from <linux/fb.h> and patch 18 > documents the zero'ed memory returned by framebuffer_alloc(). > > v3: > * sh: include board name in commit message (Adrian) > * docs: reword text (Miguel) Thanks for the update! > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers Four patches with the exact same one-line summary. Please make them unique. > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers > fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers Two patches with the exact same one-line summary. Please make them unique. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert
Hi Am 14.07.23 um 12:29 schrieb Dan Carpenter: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 12:24:05PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: >>> >>>> fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers >>>> fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers >>>> fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers >>>> fbdev: Remove flag FBINFO_DEFAULT from fbdev drivers >> >> >> I wasn't happy about this either. But I could not come up with a description >> that fits into the 74-char limit for each commit. They only differ in the >> method of memory allocation. Do you have any ideas? > > fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT from static structs > fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT from kzalloc() structs > fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT from devm_kzalloc() structs Sounds good, I'll use that. Thanks! Best regards Thomas > > regards, > dan carpenter >