From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:59:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503010859.59487.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de>
On Monday, February 28, 2005 6:41 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
That sounds like it should be fixed.
> And most framebuffer drivers contain a module_exit function.
> Is there really any case where this is both reasonable and working?
I'd like to see them stay modular if it's not too much trouble. It makes
things easier to debug and test, for one thing. I also think setups with
multiple framebuffers but w/o consoles on any of them are somewhat common,
meaning the fb drivers can be easily loaded and unloaded if the fb devices
aren't in use.
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-01 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 2:41 RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Adrian Bunk
2005-03-01 3:46 ` 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 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2005-03-02 11:32 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] RFC: disallow modular framebuffers David Vrabel
2005-03-02 12:17 ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-02 18:01 ` Jon Smirl
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