From: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New FBDev patch
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:17:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109171733.GA13027@dreamland.darkstar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401082108080.12797-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
Il Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:03:54PM +0000, James Simmons ha scritto:
>
> This is the latest patch against 2.6.0-rc3. Give it a try.
>
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
> <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net> (03/09/17 1.1267.40.1)
> Add new API framebuffer_alloc and framebuffer_release.
>
> Framebuffer info structure (ie. struct fb_info) must be obtained from
> framebuffer_alloc. When it is no longer needed (after unregister_framebuffer
> and clean up) it can be released using framebuffer_release.
>
> If the framebuffer is not registered yet (eg. on error path) then fb_info must
> be released via kfree.
Are we sure that we want this for 2.6? Greg KH has a much less intrusive
patch, maybe you should take that instead and keep my work 2.7.
If you decide to go with framebuffer_alloc then I have more patches for
you ;)
Luca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-08 22:03 New FBDev patch James Simmons
2004-01-08 22:03 ` James Simmons
2004-01-08 22:56 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-01-08 23:05 ` Paul Mundt
2004-01-08 23:12 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-01-08 23:12 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-01-09 0:35 ` James Simmons
2004-01-09 0:35 ` James Simmons
2004-01-10 17:15 ` Re: New FBDev patch (a little report) Javier Villavicencio
2004-01-11 7:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-11 7:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-08 23:26 ` New FBDev patch Russell King
2004-01-08 23:26 ` Russell King
2004-01-09 19:54 ` James Simmons
2004-01-09 19:54 ` James Simmons
2004-01-11 12:09 ` Russell King
2004-01-11 12:09 ` Russell King
2004-01-09 17:17 ` Kronos [this message]
2004-01-09 20:06 ` James Simmons
2004-01-09 20:06 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
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