From bdde97ac4bea26d48f60e353396b2b4fb0234ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 20:23:37 +0200 Subject: Revert "fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered" This reverts commit fb561bf9abde49f7e00fdbf9ed2ccf2d86cac8ee. With commit 27599aacbaefcbf2af7b06b0029459bbf682000d Author: Thomas Zimmermann Date: Tue Jan 25 10:12:18 2022 +0100 fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal this should be fixed properly and we can remove this somewhat hackish check here (e.g. this won't catch drm drivers if fbdev emulation isn't enabled). Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Zack Rusin Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Zack Rusin Cc: Hans de Goede Cc: Ilya Trukhanov Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Peter Jones Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220607182338.344270-5-javierm@redhat.com --- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c') diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c index ea42ba6445b2..edca3703b964 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c @@ -351,17 +351,6 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) char *option = NULL; efi_memory_desc_t md; - /* - * 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(&dev->dev, - "efifb: a framebuffer is already registered\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } - if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI || pci_dev_disabled) return -ENODEV; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b