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([2405:201:d019:4042:982d:4536:f564:9a92]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 41be03b00d2f7-bc37731d21dsm7865756a12.34.2025.11.15.10.00.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:00:09 -0800 (PST) From: Sukrut Heroorkar To: Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Jonathan Corbet , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org (open list:DRM DRIVERS), linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) Cc: shuah@kernel.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, Sukrut Heroorkar Subject: [PATCH] fbdev/ todo: Remove obsolete line about VGA16fb memory region Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:29:54 +0530 Message-ID: <20251115175955.203312-1-hsukrut3@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The fbdev TODO item mentions that VGA16fb does not request its memory region properly. This was fixed by commit 0be42724bf4d ("fbdev: vga16fb: Request memory region"). Remove the obsolete line. Signed-off-by: Sukrut Heroorkar --- Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 9013ced318cb..277b3e495726 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -424,8 +424,7 @@ Go through these drivers and add code to request the me= mory regions that the driver uses. This requires adding calls to request_mem_region(), pci_request_region() or similar functions. Use helpers for managed cleanup where possible. Problematic areas include hardware that has exclusive rang= es -like VGA. VGA16fb does not request the range as it is expected. -Drivers are pretty bad at doing this and there used to be conflicts among +like VGA. Drivers are pretty bad at doing this and there used to be confli= cts among DRM and fbdev drivers. Still, it's the correct thing to do. =20 Contact: Thomas Zimmermann --=20 2.43.0