From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [FBDEV]: Video mode change notify (fbset)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:00:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088006431.1854.151.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406220639.20791.adaplas@hotpop.com>
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:39, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch allows fbset to change the video mode and the console
> window size via the notifier call chain. It will only notify fbcon of
> mode changes from user space. Changes coming from
> upstream will be ignored.
>
> The code will only update the current console.
Excellent. I still want, at one point, to restore the per-vt var structure
in fbcon btw.
Andrew, that should probably go in. The lack of fbset functionality is
a big regression of fbdev's in 2.6 compared to 2.4
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-21 22:39 [PATCH 2/3] [FBDEV]: Video mode change notify (fbset) Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-23 16:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-06-23 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/4][RESEND][FBDEV]: " jsimmons
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