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From: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:39:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] drm_fb_helper: Impossible to change video
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On 11/20/2009 09:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:53:37 +0000 (GMT)
> James Simmons<jsimmons@infradead.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>>> Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
>>>> On drivers using drm_fb_helper's in fb_ops it is not possible to change
>>>> video mode, because of different var->pixclock evaluation: ...
>>>
>>> patch:
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44369.html
>>
>> Those patches will enable fbdev apps to run properly. More patches are
>> needed if you want to support mode switching using the fbdev emulation
>> layer. I noticed my patches and yours where lost. Who do you send patches
>> too that can merge them ?
>
> y:/usr/src/git26>  perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> David Airlie<airlied@linux.ie>
> Dave Airlie<airlied@redhat.com>
> Jesse Barnes<jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> Mikael Pettersson<mikpe@it.uu.se>
> dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> That's accurate enough.
>
> Generally, if nothing has happened in a week, the chances that it's
> lost are very high.  Resend.  If you like, cc me and I'll maintain the patches
> and resend them for you.

You can add Tested-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@gmail.com>
for http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44369.html
as this was preventing DirectFB from running on my Asus Eee PC 701.

While at this patch maybe you should fix that spelling issue as well.

> cheers,
> lkml resendbot.