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* [PATCH] fbdev/ todo: Remove obsolete line about VGA16fb memory region
@ 2025-11-15 17:59 Sukrut Heroorkar
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From: Sukrut Heroorkar @ 2025-11-15 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard, Thomas Zimmermann,
	David Airlie, Simona Vetter, Jonathan Corbet,
	open list:DRM DRIVERS, open list:DOCUMENTATION, open list
  Cc: shuah, david.hunter.linux, Sukrut Heroorkar

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 <hsukrut3@gmail.com>
---
 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 memory 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 ranges
-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 conflicts among
 DRM and fbdev drivers. Still, it's the correct thing to do.
 
 Contact: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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