Re: [PATCH 6/8] fbcon/fbdev: Remove fbc

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

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 08:17, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:12:15AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 19:46, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > On  2 Nov 04 at 19:46, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > Why not just leave the hardware uninitialized after register_framebuffer?
> > Then, initialize it at the first call to xxxfb_open()?  We can even check
> > a flag so we do this only once. This way if people accidentally enabled
> > matroxfb but forgot to enable fbcon, they will still get a usable vga
> > console.
>
> Because hardware driver is supposed to drive hardware.   Plus I do not
> agree with paradigm that open should do something special unless each open
> provides completely separate view (like opening /dev/ptmx).  Harddisk also
> does not spin up when you open /dev/hda and does not stop when you close
> it. Petr Vandrovec

Ok, we'll do the flag in matroxfb_set_par().

Tony




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