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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:41:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de> (raw)

Hi,

while looking how to fix modular FB_SAVAGE_* (both FB_SAVAGE_I2C=m and 
FB_SAVAGE_ACCEL=m are currently broken) I asked myself:

Do modular framebuffers really make sense?

OK, distributions like to make everything modular, but all the 
framebuffer drivers I've looked at parse driver specific options in 
their *_setup function only in the non-modular case.

And most framebuffer drivers contain a module_exit function.
Is there really any case where this is both reasonable and working?

cu
Adrian

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-03-01  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-01  2:41 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-03-01  3:46 ` RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01  6:07   ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-01 17:52     ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2005-03-01 12:49 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 13:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 16:56   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 19:50     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 20:20       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 20:37         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 23:07           ` [2.6 patch] make savagefb one module Adrian Bunk
2005-03-04  9:17             ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-05  1:12               ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-05 20:49                 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 16:59 ` RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 11:32 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " David Vrabel
2005-03-02 12:17 ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-02 18:01   ` Jon Smirl

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