Re: Re: [PATCH] mach64 atari patch

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 8/8/05, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > James, if you are really worried about our patch to move softcursor
> > into fbcon, why don't we put it into the -mm tree for a month without
> > moving it to the main kernel and see if anyone complains.
> >
> > I am definitely of the belief that since softcursor can only be used
> > by fbcon then it should be moved into fbcon and all support for it be
> > dropped from fbdev. We can't leave the code as is since it interferes
> > with the use of the hardware cursors from user space.
> >
> > I just don't think this patch is as complex as you are making it out
> > to be. It is large simply because the same action has been repeated
> > for each of the 65 drivers. The action is only a simple deletion of
> > two lines.
> 
> I'm not arguing over this. What is wrong with breaking this patch up!!!!!
> I still have no answer to this!!!! I'm using the hardware flag because
> sometimes the driver that does have a hardware cursor wants to turn
> support off for it.

Set  .fb_cursor = NULL; to turn off the support.
 
-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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