Re: fbdev sysfs support.

[viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > This function will not get called until the sysfs node stops being busy,
> > so it should all work properly.  But only if that fb_info structure was
> > allocated dynamically, unlike all of the current fb drivers (see my
> > other comment about this patch.)
> > 
> > So in that case, this will cause us to try to call kfree on a static
> > structure :(
> 
> I plan to move every driver to framebuffer_alloc. 

Erm...  You know, it would be much better to do that _before_ sysfs-related
merge.  With framebuffer_release() being originally defined as kfree(),
so that no breakage would happen during the transition.  Once everything is
using dynamic allocation with framebuffer_alloc()/framebuffer_free(), add
sysfs bits.  That way you get the same total size of patches in the series
and avoid the breakage on intermediate stages...


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