From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:59:09 -0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040320215909.GA26277@kroah.com> References: <20040320174956.GA3177@dreamland.darkstar.lan> <20040320213030.GA3950@kroah.com> <20040320215219.GA20277@dreamland.darkstar.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4oVG-0001Ic-Na for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:59:38 -0800 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183] helo=perch.kroah.org) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4oVC-0007Db-7o for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:59:34 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040320215219.GA20277@dreamland.darkstar.lan> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kronos Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton 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): > > > 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. > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click