From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Geert@sc8-sf-spam2.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:58:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326195807.184474d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703192055090.27580@pentafluge.infradead.org>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> This patch does several things to allow the underlying hardware to be
> shared amount many devices. The most important thing is the use of
> the created device via device_create instead of the hardware device. No
> longer should fbdev drivers use the xxx_set_drvdata with the parent
> bus device. The second change is having a bus independent power management
> for the framebuffer driver. The final change is using the release method
> to cleanup the device. The reason again is to make the fbdev driver
> independent of the bus parent device. Feedback is welcomed.
Causes an early crash on the powermac G5.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000489.jpg (the oops is the usual powerpc
mess)
config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-20 14:25 [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements James Simmons
2007-03-21 0:14 ` Greg KH
2007-03-27 3:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-27 6:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-27 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 0:56 ` James Simmons
2007-04-01 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 13:46 ` James Simmons
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