From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Subject: Re: [PATCH] broken cfb* support in the Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:30:11 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <212B36E116D@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17fHu9-0000lZ-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 03:31:01 -0700 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On 14 Aug 02 at 21:30, James Simmons wrote: > > Hi Linus, hello others, > > please apply this. > > > > line_length, type and visual moved from display struct to the fb_info's fix > > structure during last fbdev updates. Unfortunately generic code was not updated > > together, so now every fbdev driver is broken. > > That was done to push people to port there drivers to the new api. I > applied the patch to the Bk repository but expect more breakage. Which new API? If you are going to remove logo and unaccelerated fbcon-cfb*, then remove them completely. If you are not going to remove unaccelerated fbcon-cfb*, then there is no reason for breaking them. I'm not going to remove unaccelerated code from the matroxfb. Never. Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390