From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: fbdev and power management Date: 09 Jul 2003 19:49:59 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1057772998.15932.55.camel@gaston> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from griffon.mipsys.com ([217.167.51.129] helo=gaston) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19aJ5y-0007HS-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:51:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Russell King , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 19:45, James Simmons wrote: > > My concern is that there has been: > > - 4 months of non-exposure of this work > > - 4 months of making the current system work > > - and putting it in will require a fair number of drivers to be > > re-worked. > > > > Apart from driver re-work and that the core interfaces are supposed to > > be stable, what are the technical arguments against merging it, say, > > today? > > This is the reason I have waited. Those changes will only affect drivers, there is still need for some mecanism to deal with fbcon. I'll send you a patch before the end of the week hopefully. There may be a better way of doing it than my patch by having fbcon be someway a child of the HW driver in the device-tree, but it's a bit nasty right now, and my patch adds a more generic way to notify "clients" of fbdev's (like fbcon) of events at the low level that could be used for hotplug monitor change notification or whatever... Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps