From 0728bacbba3b0267fa8ca8be69aa43d81b57ab51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:47:47 -0700 Subject: matroxfb: make CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y mandatory I would like to get rid of option CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD and just always enable it. There are many reasons for doing this: * CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y is what all x86 distributions do, so it definitely works or we would know by now. * Building the matroxfb driver with CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD not set results in the following build warning: drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c: In function 'matroxfb_dh_open': drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c:265: warning: the address of 'matroxfb_global_mxinfo' will always evaluate as 'true' drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c: In function 'matroxfb_dh_release': drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c:285: warning: the address of 'matroxfb_global_mxinfo' will always evaluate as 'true' This is nothing to be worried about, the driver will work fine, but build warnings are still annoying. * The trick to get multihead support without CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD, which is described in the config help text, no longer works: you can't load the same kernel module more than once. * I fail to see how CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y would make the code significantly slower, contrary to what the help text says. A few extra parameters on the stack here and there can't really slow things down in comaprison to the rest of the code, and register access. * The driver built without CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is larger than the driver build with CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y by 8%. * One less configuration option makes things simpler. We add options all the time, being able to remove one for once is nice. It improves testing coverage. And I don't think the Matrox adapters are still popular enough to warrant overdetailed configuration settings. * We should be able to unobfuscate the driver code quite a bit after this change (patches follow.) Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Krzysztof Helt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/fb') diff --git a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt index ad7a67707d62..e5ce8a1a978b 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt @@ -186,9 +186,7 @@ noinverse - show true colors on screen. It is default. dev:X - bind driver to device X. Driver numbers device from 0 up to N, where device 0 is first `known' device found, 1 second and so on. lspci lists devices in this order. - Default is `every' known device for driver with multihead support - and first working device (usually dev:0) for driver without - multihead support. + Default is `every' known device. nohwcursor - disables hardware cursor (use software cursor instead). hwcursor - enables hardware cursor. It is default. If you are using non-accelerated mode (`noaccel' or `fbset -accel false'), software -- cgit v1.2.2