On Saturday 19 February 2005 05:59, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 00:46, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:42:50 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas
> >
> > <adaplas@hotpop.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 February 2005 15:27, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > > Next version of sysfs patch. Fills out more attributes. Feel free to
> > > > add code for missing implementations. Modifies fbcon to copy mode
> > > > structure instead of taking a reference to it. Modular fbdev is
> > > > separate patch. Ultimately we should be able to eliminate the IOCTL
> > > > code from fb_core and move it to a compatibility module.
> > >
> > > Okay, I think I can start coding starting from this patch.
> >
> > Do you want to take over the sysfs support? If so, I will make some
> > changes to the radeonfb driver that I need. That will keep up from
> > conflicting.
>
> Actually, I plan to do the fbcon part only, capturing the event. I'll use
> yours as the test bed, but you and James will have to agree on the best way
> to add sysfs support to the fb core.

Attached are 2 test patches.  The first (fbsysfs.diff) is Jon's practically
unmodified code, but with cosmetic changes and the mode copy reverted back
to mode pointer (I prefer the pointer since it will crash rather than
silently fail if there's a bug, besides consuming less memory).

The second patch (fbcon-new-modelist.diff) adds a new event,
FB_EVENT_NEW_MODELIST.  This is sent by store_modes() via fb_new_modelist().
The event is captured by fbcon and resizes all consoles based on the new
modelist.

Tony