Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] fbdev: Remove FBINFO_DEFAULT and FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT flags

Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.input,gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel,gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.freedesktop.amd-gfx,gmane.comp.video.dri.devel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap,gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel,gmane.linux.ports.geode,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure
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Hi

Am 14.07.23 um 12:04 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> 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

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?

> 
> 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.

Same problem here.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                          Geert
> 

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