From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: LCD scaling type
Date: 11 Jan 2003 12:08:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042283284.541.38.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1042279649.955.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:16, Antonino Daplas wrote:
>
> Well, yes of course, if a particular hardware feature is quite useful
> and common, then you need something definitive. But what I also want is
> another field which will serve as a private communication channel
> between userspace and driver. Adventurous users/testers can use them to
> turn a unique hardware feature on/off. This is similar to 'Tweak'ing
> utilities common in MS Windows.
I already do that in some drivers using private ioctl's, though if
what you want is really an additional "feature" affecting a mode
setting, then it makes sense to fit it into fb_var_screeninfo
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-11 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 19:42 LCD scaling type Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-11 6:58 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-11 9:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-11 10:16 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-11 11:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-01-11 11:35 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-11 12:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-11 12:42 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-11 13:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-01-11 13:27 ` Antonino Daplas
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