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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.15-rc4-git1] Fix switching to KD_TEXT
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:14:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051209141401.GA2724@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43997037.4020206@t-online.de>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:53:27PM +0100, Knut Petersen wrote:
> And please don´t argue that X or certain releases are broken. That is 
> true, but ordinary
> users will use those broken versions for years.

Then they should just keep using vgacon.

However if you're really going to add more uneccessary set_par() calls 
please make them configurable (eg. CONFIG_BROKEN_X). I'll go crazy if my 
CRT is going to start resyncing on every vt switch.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.15-rc4-git1] Fix switching to KD_TEXT
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:14:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051209141401.GA2724@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43997037.4020206@t-online.de>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:53:27PM +0100, Knut Petersen wrote:
> And please don´t argue that X or certain releases are broken. That is 
> true, but ordinary
> users will use those broken versions for years.

Then they should just keep using vgacon.

However if you're really going to add more uneccessary set_par() calls 
please make them configurable (eg. CONFIG_BROKEN_X). I'll go crazy if my 
CRT is going to start resyncing on every vt switch.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 22:49 [PATCH 1/1 2.6.15-rc4-git1] Fix switching to KD_TEXT Knut Petersen
2005-12-08 22:49 ` Knut Petersen
2005-12-09  0:24 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-12-09 11:53   ` Knut Petersen
2005-12-09 14:14     ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2005-12-09 14:14       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2005-12-09 20:35       ` Knut Petersen
2005-12-10  5:33         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-12-09 14:33     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-12-09 16:38     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-12-09 16:38       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-12-10  6:28 ` Knut Petersen
2005-12-10  6:28   ` Knut Petersen

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