From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Rick L. Vinyard Jr." <rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com,
pavel@ucw.cz, jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, oliver@neukum.org,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
npavel@ituner.com, tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com, tony@atomide.com,
FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de, krzysztof.h1@wp.pl,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, jkosina@suse.cz,
bonbons@linux-vserver.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add sysfs support for fbdefio delay
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:19:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302161919.19df3a18.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003021847.o22IlYR8004349@mustang.cs.nmsu.edu>
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:47:34 -0700
"Rick L. Vinyard Jr." <rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> This patch adds support for examining and modifying the fbdefio delay
> parameter through sysfs. It also adds two driver definable minimum
> and maximum bounds.
>
> The default behavior is to not permit modifications if delay_max is 0,
> thus preventing modification of the delay if the driver does not
> explicitly permit modification.
Why is this being added? You have some device which doesn't function
properly without this change?
If so, that's pretty critical changelog info - we presently have no
reason to merge the patch!
Thanks.
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2010-03-02 18:47 [PATCH] Add sysfs support for fbdefio delay Rick L. Vinyard Jr.
2010-03-03 0:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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