Re: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:52:19PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> Il Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:30:30PM -0800, Greg KH ha scritto: 
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:49:56PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > the following patch (against 2.6.5-rc2) teaches fb to use class_simple.
> > > With this patch udev will automagically create device nodes for each
> > > framebuffer registered. Once all drivers are converted to
> > > framebuffer_{alloc,release} we can switch to our own class.
> > 
> > yeah, it's about time!  Didn't I post this patch a few months ago... :)
> 
> Hum, I remeber your patch that did the same thing, but it didn't use
> class_simple, did it?

I think I had one version that did, but who cares, it doesn't really
matter :)

> > > notebook:~# tree /sys/class/graphics/
> > > /sys/class/graphics/
> > 
> > "graphics"?  Why that?  Why not "fb"?
> > 
> > It doesn't really matter to me, just curious.
> 
> It was discussed a while ago (this is James):
> 
> <quote>
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:24, Kronos wrote:
> > > > +static struct class fb_class = {
> > > > + .name           = "video",
> > >
> > > I'd rather use "display" here. "video" is too broad and will cause
> > > confusion with multimedia stuff.
> >
> > Exactly my comment. I was thinking about `graphics' instead of
> > `video', but indeed `display' sounds better. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> I prefere graphics myself. Display sounds to generic. That is what video
> and graphics output is piped to. Since fbdev doesn't handle video ouput
> normally this is kind of fuzzy sounding.
> </quote>

Well, /sys/class/video is already taken by the V4L core code, so if
"graphics" doesn't confuse people, it's ok with me.

thanks,

greg k-h


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