No more new fbdev drivers, please

2015-09-28 Thread Bernie Thompson
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > The smallest of these (udl) still counts in at ca. 2800 LoC, Note udlfb.c, the original fbdev driver that I helped write and that the udl DRM driver was based on, is ~1800 LoC ... so we're actually talking in the ballpark of 2x (rathe

Re: [UDL] general protection fault in fb_deferred_io_mkwrite()

2012-08-12 Thread Bernie Thompson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote: > guilty driver is probably udl_fb.c > any ideas? > Hi Thomas, We were seeing similar issues in udlfb (the original fbdev version of this driver), which were fixed earlier this year by getting all rendering operations out of probe/disconnect

[UDL] general protection fault in fb_deferred_io_mkwrite()

2012-08-12 Thread Bernie Thompson
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote: > guilty driver is probably udl_fb.c > any ideas? > Hi Thomas, We were seeing similar issues in udlfb (the original fbdev version of this driver), which were fixed earlier this year by getting all rendering operations out of probe/disconnect