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author | Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk> | 2009-09-22 16:47:52 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-23 07:39:57 -0700 |
commit | 2ddce3fd0acbdc1be684fb5f919ae3d2e9518aac (patch) | |
tree | 9868c190efdf179e3f9939f53f2273c3640d2102 /Documentation | |
parent | a690606d1f54845b018d033ac32e91df25cb2680 (diff) |
fbcon: only unbind from console if successfully registered
Attempting to unload a framebuffer module calls unregister_framebuffer()
which in turn gets fbcon to release it. If fbcon has no framebuffers
linked to a console, it will also unbind itself from the console driver.
However, if fbcon never registered itself as a console driver, the unbind
will fail causing the framebuffer device entry to persist. In most cases
this failure will result in an oops when attempting to access the now
non-existent device.
This patch ensures that the fbcon unbind request will succeed even if a
bind was never done. It tracks if a successful bind ever occurred & will
only attempt to unbind if needed. If there never was a bind, it simply
returns with no error.
Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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