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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Fix some races between sysfb device registration
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To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
        Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
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        Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
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On 6/7/22 20:23, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The patches in this series contain mostly changes suggested by Daniel Vetter
> Thomas Zimmermann. They aim to fix existing races between the Generic System
> Framebuffer (sysfb) infrastructure and the fbdev and DRM device registration.
> 
> For example, it is currently possible for sysfb to register a platform
> device after a real DRM driver was registered and requested to remove the
> conflicting framebuffers. Or is possible for a simple{fb,drm} to match with
> a device previously registered by sysfb, even after a real driver is present.
> 
> A symptom of this issue, was worked around with the commit fb561bf9abde
> ("fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered")
> but that's really a hack and should be reverted instead.
> 
> This series attempt to fix it more correctly and revert the mentioned hack.
> That will also allow to make the num_registered_fb variable not visible to
> drivers anymore, since that's internal to fbdev core.
> 

Pushed patches 1-4 to drm-misc (drm-misc-next). Thanks!

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat