From: Daniel THOMPSON <daniel.thompson@st.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6-mm2] fbdev: tag by scantype in sysfs
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:40:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4497C289.5060007@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4497B4FA.2080602@pol.net>
Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Daniel THOMPSON wrote:
>> There has been no further comment since this was posted in early May.
>> This either means is uncontentious or useless ... I hope the former.
>>
>
> I thought you were still in 'discussion' mode with Geert :-)
I was, but there was no further discussion so I brought it back to you.
> Anyway, this should be fine, I'm just a bit worried that it might
> break existing user apps that might be used to having modes without
> the scan type specified.
I shared this worry which is why my original patch only tagged the,
comparatively rare, interlaced modes. However the current approach (no
optional fields) is slightly cleaner and I took the view that since
no-one on fbdev-devel seems to object ...
--
Daniel Thompson (STMicroelectronics) <daniel.thompson@st.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-20 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-20 7:57 [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6-mm2] fbdev: tag by scantype in sysfs Daniel THOMPSON
2006-06-20 8:42 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-06-20 9:40 ` Daniel THOMPSON [this message]
2006-06-20 10:29 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-06-23 8:04 ` Daniel THOMPSON
2006-06-23 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-23 9:50 ` Daniel THOMPSON
2006-06-23 12:00 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-06-23 20:23 ` Luca
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