Re: [PATCH 01/10] fbdev: Clean up of sparc FB options

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:10:34 +0800
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:05 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:01:58 +0800
> > As long as each instance is defined by distinct struct fb_info's, it
> > should work.
> 
> Excellent.
> 
> The only missing piece for sparc is how do I get from an fb_info to
> the firmware node for that device.  What we can do is add a "struct
> device_node *" or similar to fb_info.  powerpc and all future
> openfirmware platforms will be able to make use of this as well.

struct fb_info already has struct device *device field.  Isn't that
sufficient enough?  Or if you must, just define a flag somewhere in
struct fb_info or struct par which the fb_get_primary_device() can
check.

Tony


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