neofb patches

neofb patches

[Alex Stewart]

Greetings all,

I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)

So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
somewhere else which would be more appropriate?

-alex


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Re: neofb patches

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
> I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
> my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
>
> So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
> problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
> this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
> somewhere else which would be more appropriate?

Yes it is. You may want to CC James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> to make
sure it gets his attention.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: neofb patches

[James Simmons]

Yes please. I have a newer driver as well. I like to see what fixes you 
have.

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
> > I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
> > my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
> >
> > So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
> > problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
> > this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
> > somewhere else which would be more appropriate?
> 
> Yes it is. You may want to CC James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> to make
> sure it gets his attention.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> 							    -- Linus Torvalds
> 
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Re: neofb patches

[Alex Thiel]

James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:

> Yes please. I have a newer driver as well. I like to see what fixes you 
> have.
>

BTW, James, I tried that new driver and it fixes the oops that I have
reported a while ago. However, the diff that I got from infradead.org
recently did not apply cleanly to official kernels.

Could you post your new neofb driver as a patch against a vanilla
kernel release, please?

Cheers & thanks,

       Alex

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
>> > I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
>> > my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
>> >
>> > So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
>> > problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
>> > this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
>> > somewhere else which would be more appropriate?



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Re: Re: neofb patches

[James Simmons]

I have a new pacth avaliable at 

http://phoenix.infradead.org:~/neofb.diff.gz

Its against the latest kernel.


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Alex Thiel wrote:

> James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:
> 
> > Yes please. I have a newer driver as well. I like to see what fixes you 
> > have.
> >
> 
> BTW, James, I tried that new driver and it fixes the oops that I have
> reported a while ago. However, the diff that I got from infradead.org
> recently did not apply cleanly to official kernels.
> 
> Could you post your new neofb driver as a patch against a vanilla
> kernel release, please?
> 
> Cheers & thanks,
> 
>        Alex
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
> >> > I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
> >> > my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
> >> >
> >> > So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
> >> > problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
> >> > this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
> >> > somewhere else which would be more appropriate?
> 
> 
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Re: neofb patches

[Alex Thiel]

James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:

> I have a new pacth avaliable at 
>
> http://phoenix.infradead.org:~/neofb.diff.gz
>
> Its against the latest kernel.

For the record, the link is http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/neofb.diff.gz

Works well over here.
I also tried the patches that Alex Stewart posted and these seem to
work well, too. I suggest that the new neofb driver should go into
the -mm tree soon, maybe after merging Alex' fixes.

    Alex

>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Alex Thiel wrote:
>
>> James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Yes please. I have a newer driver as well. I like to see what fixes you 
>> > have.
>> >
>> 
>> BTW, James, I tried that new driver and it fixes the oops that I have
>> reported a while ago. However, the diff that I got from infradead.org
>> recently did not apply cleanly to official kernels.
>> 
>> Could you post your new neofb driver as a patch against a vanilla
>> kernel release, please?
>> 
>> Cheers & thanks,
>> 
>>        Alex
>> 
>> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
>> >> > I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
>> >> > my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
>> >> >
>> >> > So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
>> >> > problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
>> >> > this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
>> >> > somewhere else which would be more appropriate?
>> 



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Re: Re: neofb patches

[James Simmons]

> > Its against the latest kernel.
> 
> For the record, the link is http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/neofb.diff.gz
> 
> Works well over here.
> I also tried the patches that Alex Stewart posted and these seem to
> work well, too. I suggest that the new neofb driver should go into
> the -mm tree soon, maybe after merging Alex' fixes.

That is the pan. Unfortunely his patches don't play nice with my new 
driver :-(




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