[PATCH] ARM: amba: Link fb device to its parent

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Fri Jun 24 09:57:06 EDT 2011


On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Paul Mundt wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:44:17PM +0200, Lo??c Minier wrote:
> > Some pieces of userspace like debian-installer expect to find the fb0
> > driver name by readlink-ing /sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/driver but
> > this was broken with amba-clcd as it sets up fb_info manually and missed
> > the .device parent pointer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lo??c Minier <loic.minier at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal at linux-sh.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/video/amba-clcd.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> While this is titled as an ARM patch it's certainly fbdev-specific. I'll
> apply it barring any objections from Russell.

BTW this should be "Loïc Minier" not "Lo??c Minier" The original email 
was fine with proper UTF-8 in that regard.  Maybe you should have a look 
at your MUA config so the resulting patch log going into git is not 
dammaged.


Nicolas


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