From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:26:27 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040323122627.GA22830@lambda> References: <20040320174956.GA3177@dreamland.darkstar.lan> <1079909446.911.165.camel@gaston> <20040322195720.GA27480@kroah.com> <200403231211.09334.lkml@kcore.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5kzN-00082C-0s for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:26:37 -0800 Received: from smtp2.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.29] helo=mwinf0204.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5kzL-00064e-Mj for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:26:35 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403231211.09334.lkml@kcore.org> 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: Jan De Luyck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Kronos , Linux Fbdev development list , Andrew Morton On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:11:00PM +0100, Jan De Luyck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 22 March 2004 20:57, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:50:46AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > I still prefer display... > > > > Bah, I don't want to argue here. I've applied Kronos's patch as is to > > my device-2.6 tree which will end up in the next -mm release. > > > > I'll hold off forwarding this patch to Linus until after 2.6.5 is out, > > so that gives everyone a few days in which to argue the name a bunch and > > then send me a patch that changes it to the decided apon name (if it is > > to be changed.) > > - From a users point of view: if there are only to be framebuffer devices listed > in this class, why not call it just what it is: "Framebuffer" ? Naming it > after something it is only in a broad sense makes no sense to me. I'd be > looking in /sys/.../framebuffer instead of /sys/.../graphics or /display. Notice that /display is what is used by most OF implementations, so this kinda makes sense. I would vote like BenH on this if i was consulted. > Display would be the EDID info of my screen (physical), and graphics... > well... I'd half expect something like capture cards to be there... But this also makes sense, still, i guess we are concerned with more info than just the framebuffer, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- 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