Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs updates.

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:03 +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:45 +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Andrew can you try this patch. The goal of the patch is to allow the 
> > > hardware behind fbdev to be shared with out types of devices i.e 
> > > backlight, drm, and display. Please give it a try.
> > > 
> > 
> > Any real world examples on how this patch can allow sharing with DRM?
> > I'm not sure if your changelog reflects the content of this patch.
> 
> DRM would need to be updated to use a child device. The idea is simple. 
> Use the device created with device_create instead of the parent device.
> The conflict was storing our private data with the parent device. Now it 
> is stored in the child device. Other subsystems already use this approach. 
> The drivers would need to be be cleaned up. Right now they use the parent 
> device to stored fb_info. 

What I basically see in this patch, unless I miss something, is moving
device code from fbmem.c to fbsysfs.c and the creation of fb_power()
hook. I have nothing against the patch in principle, I just think the
changelog is not very clear. 

Tony



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