Javier Martinez Canillas 90342e02b4 fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered
commit fb561bf9abde49f7e00fdbf9ed2ccf2d86cac8ee upstream.

The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer
and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots.

But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the
generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display
hardware is already present.

This is more likely to occur after commit d391c5827107 ("drivers/firmware:
move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support") since the "efi-framebuffer"
and "simple-framebuffer" platform devices are registered at a later time.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110200253.rfudkt3edbd3nsyj@lahvuun/
Fixes: d391c5827107 ("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support")
Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tested-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211111115757.1351045-1-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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