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

Paul Mundt lethal at linux-sh.org
Sun Jun 26 12:20:08 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:57:06AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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 "Lo?c 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.
> 
My MUA ignores UTF-8 intentionally, but this has no bearing on the status
in my git tree.



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