[PATCH 13/13] fix ps3fb glue allowing a modular build

Antonino A. Daplas adaplas at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 12:17:07 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:50 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> 

> And finally, make sure CONFIG_LOGO=n, as there's a bug in the logo code: logos
> are __initdata but the logo code still tries to draw them for a modular fbdev.
> Originally (eons ago) this case was handled by the flag initmem_freed, which no
> longer exists.
> 

True, I tried to prevent the logo from being drawn if the driver is
loaded first prior to fbcon, but the code will still draw the logo if
the load order is reversed.  Can you try this patch?  It will only
permit the drawing of the logo if both the driver and fbcon are compiled
statically.

Tony
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