Re: LCD scaling type

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 07:58, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I second to this.  It's useful to have an extra field in
> fb_var_screeninfo for drivers to play around.  It's like an extension
> field and its main use is to expose a hardware capability which is
> uncommon enough to warrant generic support.  It's meaning will vary from
> driver to driver.  

I don't fully agree here. While I agree a driver specific field might
be useful, I beleive the "flags" field should have defined meaning.

> I also have a couple of things that come to mind (like switching from
> truecolor to directcolor and vice versa without rebooting).  I currently
> use var->nonstd which is probably not the the right thing to do.

For this too, defined flags would make sense as other driver might want
to implement the same capability, in which case we really want all of
them to do it the same way.

-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


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