Merge branch 'topic/remove-fbcon-notifiers' into drm-misc-next

topic/remove-fbcon-notifiers:
- remove fbdev notifier usage for fbcon, as prep work to clean up the fbcon locking
- assorted locking checks in vt/console code
- assorted notifier and cleanups in fbdev and backlight code

This is the pull request that was sent out, plus the compile fix for
sh4 reported by kbuild.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
index 954ed99e80da..d54c88f88991 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/fb.h>
+#include <linux/fbcon.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
@@ -175,10 +176,7 @@ static ssize_t store_modes(struct device *device,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	console_lock();
-	if (!lock_fb_info(fb_info)) {
-		console_unlock();
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
+	lock_fb_info(fb_info);
 
 	list_splice(&fb_info->modelist, &old_list);
 	fb_videomode_to_modelist((const struct fb_videomode *)buf, i,
@@ -304,12 +302,13 @@ static ssize_t store_blank(struct device *device,
 {
 	struct fb_info *fb_info = dev_get_drvdata(device);
 	char *last = NULL;
-	int err;
+	int err, arg;
 
+	arg = simple_strtoul(buf, &last, 0);
 	console_lock();
-	fb_info->flags |= FBINFO_MISC_USEREVENT;
-	err = fb_blank(fb_info, simple_strtoul(buf, &last, 0));
-	fb_info->flags &= ~FBINFO_MISC_USEREVENT;
+	err = fb_blank(fb_info, arg);
+	/* might again call into fb_blank */
+	fbcon_fb_blanked(fb_info, arg);
 	console_unlock();
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
@@ -405,10 +404,7 @@ static ssize_t store_fbstate(struct device *device,
 	state = simple_strtoul(buf, &last, 0);
 
 	console_lock();
-	if (!lock_fb_info(fb_info)) {
-		console_unlock();
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
+	lock_fb_info(fb_info);
 
 	fb_set_suspend(fb_info, (int)state);