Otherwise it's bit silly, and we might throw out the driver for the screen the user is actually looking at. I haven't found a bug report for this case yet, but we did get bug reports for the analog case where we're throwing out the efifb driver.
v2: Flip the check around to make it clear it's a special case for kicking out the vgacon driver only (Thomas) References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216303 Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> Cc: Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/video/aperture.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/aperture.c b/drivers/video/aperture.c index 8835d3bc39bf..552cffdb827b 100644 --- a/drivers/video/aperture.c +++ b/drivers/video/aperture.c @@ -341,13 +341,15 @@ int aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(struct pci_dev *pdev, const char *na return ret; } - /* - * WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon, - * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over. - */ - ret = vga_remove_vgacon(pdev); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (primary) { + /* + * WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon, + * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over. + */ + ret = vga_remove_vgacon(pdev); + if (ret) + return ret; + } return 0; -- 2.40.0
