From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Armbruster Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:31:40 +0100 Message-ID: <878x1ecj2b.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> References: <871w76ejdg.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <87ve4id4rb.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <45a44e480802210830o1041e612sa532acde52e42748@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45a44e480802210830o1041e612sa532acde52e42748@mail.gmail.com> (Jaya Kumar's message of "Fri\, 22 Feb 2008 00\:30\:58 +0800") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jaya Kumar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@pol.net, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org "Jaya Kumar" writes: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Fix extracted from this linux-fbdev-devel message: > > Hi Markus, > > Yes, this was discussed back in November on linux-mm and hence my > patch. I didn't push for it to be merged by itself because I don't > think it makes sense to merge it separately from the full metronomefb > patch. As far as I can tell, only hecubafb and metronomefb seem to be > the consumers. > > Out of curiosity, are you using defio or planning to use it? I would > love to hear back from people who are using it. > > Thanks, > jaya Converting to fb_defio made xen-fbfront quite a bit simpler and much more maintainable. Excellent match. It took me a bit of time to find your fix, mostly because I assumed my own code was broken, not fb_defio. It's best not to make assumptions about who uses your code; if it's any good, chances are somebody will find a use you never imagined.