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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:30:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040320213030.GA3950@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040320174956.GA3177@dreamland.darkstar.lan>

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:49:56PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> Hi,
> the following patch (against 2.6.5-rc2) teaches fb to use class_simple.
> With this patch udev will automagically create device nodes for each
> framebuffer registered. Once all drivers are converted to
> framebuffer_{alloc,release} we can switch to our own class.

yeah, it's about time!  Didn't I post this patch a few months ago... :)

Anyway, it looks good, I only have one comment:

> notebook:~# tree /sys/class/graphics/
> /sys/class/graphics/

"graphics"?  Why that?  Why not "fb"?

It doesn't really matter to me, just curious.

thanks,

greg k-h


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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:30:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040320213030.GA3950@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040320174956.GA3177@dreamland.darkstar.lan>

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:49:56PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> Hi,
> the following patch (against 2.6.5-rc2) teaches fb to use class_simple.
> With this patch udev will automagically create device nodes for each
> framebuffer registered. Once all drivers are converted to
> framebuffer_{alloc,release} we can switch to our own class.

yeah, it's about time!  Didn't I post this patch a few months ago... :)

Anyway, it looks good, I only have one comment:

> notebook:~# tree /sys/class/graphics/
> /sys/class/graphics/

"graphics"?  Why that?  Why not "fb"?

It doesn't really matter to me, just curious.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-20 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-20 17:49 [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer Kronos
2004-03-20 21:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-20 21:30   ` Greg KH
2004-03-20 21:52   ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kronos
2004-03-20 21:59     ` Greg KH
2004-03-20 21:59       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Greg KH
2004-03-21  8:02       ` Ingo Oeser
2004-03-21  8:02         ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Ingo Oeser
2004-03-22 17:41       ` Gerd Knorr
2004-03-21 22:50     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-21 22:50       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-22 19:57       ` Greg KH
2004-03-23 11:11         ` Jan De Luyck
2004-03-23 12:26           ` Sven Luther
2004-03-23 12:26             ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Sven Luther
2004-03-23 16:01             ` Jan De Luyck
2004-03-23 16:13               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-03-23 17:58           ` James Simmons

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