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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:07:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095638860.18428.21.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e473391040919091252baeb1a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 02:12, Jon Smirl wrote:

> The radeon driver has that extra code for intializing older DDC. That
> can be handled generically in the I2C layer by writing a ddc driver
> that is a superset of the eeprom driver.  I'd rather get that code
> into a generic driver than repeat it in every video card driver.

I'm not a fan of this solution as you know... oh well... and there's
all that code to detect non-DDC capable monitors as well, which won't
go through /sys/*/i2c...

But do as you like, I don't have time to work on it so I'll shut up.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-18 18:43 Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 19:58 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 22:12   ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 22:37     ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 23:33     ` Keith Packard
2004-09-19  0:54       ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19  1:57         ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19  2:16           ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19  2:32             ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 10:11             ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19  9:55         ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19  4:48     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:12       ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-20  0:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-09-20  1:06           ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19  4:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:46   ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 17:19     ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 20:40     ` Keith Packard
2004-09-20 13:02       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-19 20:44     ` Felix Kühling
2004-09-20  1:25       ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-20  0:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 12:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 15:56   ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-21 15:42     ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <2FYdH-10h-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2G6Et-6D7-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-19 14:18   ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-19 15:00     ` P. Benie
2004-09-19 19:08       ` Pascal Schmidt

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