BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> writes: > On Mon, 18 May 2020, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> sm501_init() and ati_vga_realize() create an "i2c-ddc" device, but >> neglect to realize it. Affects machines sam460ex, shix, r2d, and >> fulong2e. >> >> I wonder how this ever worked. If the "device becomes real only on >> realize" thing actually works, then we've always been missing the >> device, yet nobody noticed. > > No idea why it worked but guests can read EDID info fine with or > without this patch, so > > Tested-by: BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu>
Thanks! > Maybe device is created and working after init as it has nothing > special to do at realize (it doesn't even have a realize method) so > all realize would do is to link it in qtree? Plausible.