Merge branch 'topic/remove-fbcon-notifiers' into drm-misc-next

topic/remove-fbcon-notifiers:
- remove fbdev notifier usage for fbcon, as prep work to clean up the fbcon locking
- assorted locking checks in vt/console code
- assorted notifier and cleanups in fbdev and backlight code

This is the pull request that was sent out, plus the compile fix for
sh4 reported by kbuild.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/am200epd.c b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/am200epd.c
index 50e18ed37fa6..cac0bb09db14 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/am200epd.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/am200epd.c
@@ -347,8 +347,17 @@ int __init am200_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	/* before anything else, we request notification for any fb
-	 * creation events */
+	/*
+	 * Before anything else, we request notification for any fb
+	 * creation events.
+	 *
+	 * FIXME: This is terrible and needs to be nuked. The notifier is used
+	 * to get at the fb base address from the boot splash fb driver, which
+	 * is then passed to metronomefb. Instaed of metronomfb or this board
+	 * support file here figuring this out on their own.
+	 *
+	 * See also the #ifdef in fbmem.c.
+	 */
 	fb_register_client(&am200_fb_notif);
 
 	pxa2xx_mfp_config(ARRAY_AND_SIZE(am200_pin_config));