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| author | Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> | 2013-12-15 21:40:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> | 2014-01-17 10:57:45 +0200 |
| commit | f5d2b7c28b67d627646b6a0142bc201a7b1516b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 10e5edbae34ddaac67a90d37161442688a813546 /drivers/video | |
| parent | ee23794b86689e655cedd616e98c03bc3c74f5ec (diff) | |
fbmem: really support wildcard video=options for all fbdev drivers
Documentation/fb/modedb.txt states that video=option should be
considered a global option. But video_setup and fb_get_options are not
coded that way. Instead its required to boot with video=driver:option to
set a given option in drvier. This is cumbersome because it requires to
know in advance which driver will be active for a given board/kernel.
The following patch implements the documented catchall for the fbdev
drivers. It is now possible to boot with video=XxY without the need to
know the active driver in advance. The specific case it tries to fix is
syslinux in the SUSE installer which offers a menu to set a display
resolution. Right now this just appends the vga= option the kernel. But
in addition to vga= it should be possible to pass a generic video=XxY
for all framebuffer/drm drivers. With this change forcing a certain
window size of VM displays is now much easier.
Today the video= option is stored in a global fb_mode_option. But
unfortunately only drm uses it.
Note: this change introduces a small memleak if video=option is actually
used because fb_mode_option is const. Most drivers use strsep to get to
individual options. This could be fixed in a followup patch which always
releases the option string in every caller of fb_get_options.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/fbmem.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbmem.c index 010d19105ebc..cde461932760 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c @@ -1930,6 +1930,9 @@ int fb_get_options(const char *name, char **option) options = opt + name_len + 1; } } + /* No match, pass global option */ + if (!options && option && fb_mode_option) + options = kstrdup(fb_mode_option, GFP_KERNEL); if (options && !strncmp(options, "off", 3)) retval = 1; |