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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c index 62f0ded70681..b63074fd892e 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c @@ -407,6 +407,17 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct simplefb_par *par; struct resource *mem; + /* + * Generic drivers must not be registered if a framebuffer exists. + * If a native driver was probed, the display hardware was already + * taken and attempting to use the system framebuffer is dangerous. + */ + if (num_registered_fb > 0) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, + "simplefb: a framebuffer is already registered\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (fb_get_options("simplefb", NULL)) return -ENODEV; |