From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't allow softcursor use from userland
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:35:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F5E3E7.3020901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0508070327550.12196@pentafluge.infradead.org>
James Simmons wrote:
>
> This patch forbids the cursor use from userland. The reason is that the
> cursor area could be altered by a another process and the current system
> doesn't handle syncing those updates.
>
I don't really like this change. I prefer Jon's proposal of setting
fbops->fb_cursor = NULL and moving softcursor.c to drivers/video/console.
This will slash > 200 lines of source code and several bytes from the kernel
image size. Plus it's cleaner.
Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-07 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-07 2:34 [PATCH] Don't allow softcursor use from userland James Simmons
2005-08-07 4:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-07 4:41 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-07 23:25 ` James Simmons
2005-08-07 23:19 ` James Simmons
2005-08-07 10:35 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2005-08-07 23:17 ` James Simmons
2005-08-08 0:59 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-08-08 17:35 ` James Simmons
2005-08-08 17:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-08 18:16 ` James Simmons
2005-08-08 23:56 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-08-09 0:10 ` James Simmons
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