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 3/3] [FBDEV]: Hardware State Notification
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:55:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088470508.13870.31.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406290645.11510.adaplas@hotpop.com>
> fbcon_switch() will be called when there is a request to redraw the screen
> of the same vc, such as in the above, or when switching to a different vc.
>
> I think the name 'con_switch' is misleading. The better term, IMO, is
> 'con_redraw'.
Hrm... ok, I missed that one then. It would still be useful to figure
out what's wrong with X, it may not be a driver problem, but rather
an X core problem calling the driver "restore" callbacks at the wrong
time, and thus more easily fixable
Ben.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-29 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-21 22:39 [PATCH 3/3] [FBDEV]: Hardware State Notification Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-21 22:51 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-23 16:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-23 23:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-24 2:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-24 20:46 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-28 22:48 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-29 0:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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