From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: Display class Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:28:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20061206122830.1c5fda5b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <653402b90611141426y6db15a3bh8ea59f89c8f1bb39@mail.gmail.com> <20061205171401.fd11160d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kernel-discuss-bounces-CN5wO63fgwogsBAKwltoeQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kernel-discuss-bounces-CN5wO63fgwogsBAKwltoeQ@public.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Miguel Ojeda , kernel-discuss-CN5wO63fgwogsBAKwltoeQ@public.gmane.org, Luming Yu , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:10:44 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons wrote: > > > > of Mr. Yu for acpi. Also this class could in time replace the lcd class > > > located in the backlight directory since a lcd is a type of display. > > > The final hope is that the purpose auxdisplay could fall under this > > > catergory. > > > > > > P.S > > > I know the edid parsing would have to be pulled out of the fbdev layer. > > That patch was rought draft for feedback. I applied your comments. This > patch actually works. It includes my backlight fix as well. BTW, this patch version contains trailing whitespace which should be cleaned up: Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 33,158 of drivers/acpi/video.c Warning: trailing whitespace in line 10 of drivers/video/display/Kconfig Warning: trailing whitespace in line 41 of include/linux/display.h Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 49,1053,1084,1133 of drivers/video/Kconfig Warning: trailing whitespace in line 3 of drivers/video/display/Makefile --- ~Randy