From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cyber2000fb: New framebuffer_alloc API and class_dev changes
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:29:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916162922.C20141@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916151701.GA3073@dreamland.darkstar.lan>; from kronos@kronoz.cjb.net on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:17:01PM +0200
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:17:01PM +0200, Kronos wrote:
> Il Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:52:30PM +0100, Russell King ha scritto:
> > - framebuffer_alloc() creates the fb_info and the driver-private data
> > in one object, as per your patch.
>
> > - framebuffer_free() marks the structure available for freeing.
>
>
> So framebuffer_alloc calls class_device_get and framebuffer_free calls
> class_device_put. Ok, I'll rework the patch.
You could call class_device_del() instead of class_device_unregister()
from unregister_framebuffer(), and call class_device_put() in
framebuffer_free().
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-16 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 19:43 [PATCH] cyber2000fb: New framebuffer_alloc API and class_dev changes Kronos
2003-09-15 21:07 ` Russell King
2003-09-15 21:28 ` Kronos
2003-09-15 21:33 ` Russell King
2003-09-15 22:04 ` Kronos
2003-09-15 21:40 ` Russell King
2003-09-15 22:17 ` Kronos
2003-09-15 22:58 ` Russell King
2003-09-16 13:40 ` Kronos
2003-09-16 13:44 ` Russell King
2003-09-16 14:17 ` Kronos
2003-09-16 14:52 ` Russell King
2003-09-16 15:17 ` Kronos
2003-09-16 15:29 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-09-17 19:37 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 19:41 ` Russell King
2003-09-17 19:58 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 20:13 ` James Simmons
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