From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:24:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20070331182400.317728d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070326195807.184474d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXonu-0001Dp-R4 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:24:23 -0700 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.44) id 1HXont-0000SV-94 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:24:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: James Simmons Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org > On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:56:28 +0100 (BST) James Simmons wrote: > > I can't seem to duplicate this error. OK, I'll poke at it some more. > Do you have any patches applied to > the nvidia driver? I don't think so - whatever's in -mm. > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV