Fields only appearing when custom field is added in manage display screen. [#943742]

For a contrib, i have created an entity and a bundle with their types. Data is stored in own tables, so basically i only want to manage the display of fields. This all works nicely, doing the entity stuff in preprocessor, view and build_content functions.
I have three fields, only set for display in hook_field_extra_fields. None of them are showing in the Fields display UI. However, as soon as i create a custom field (which is stupid in my case, since data is created by code and not by user input), i see four fields which i can drag around in the full view mode. The frontend appears like configured.

When tracking this, it always comes down to calculating the instances and the extra fields where in some cases only the empty($instances) is checked while there could be just extra fields.
Does this make sense?

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	field_ui.admin_.inc_.patch	791 bytes	Stalski
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Comment #1

Stalski CreditAttribution: Stalski commented 17 October 2010 at 08:28

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Normal

» Critical

Weirdly enough the only thing that is needed is the change on line 828 in fields_ui.admin.inc:

  if (empty($instances) && empty($extra_fields)) {
    drupal_set_message(t('There are no fields yet added. You can add new fields on the <a href="@link">Manage fields</a> page.', array('@link' => url($admin_path . '/fields'))), 'warning');
    return $form;
  }

As the fields manage display system is currently unusable with extra fields only, i will make this a critical. I am testing this further to see if it has any implications on the rest, but that's very unlikely.

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