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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linux Fbdev development list  <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.11-rc5
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:17:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109380667.14993.118.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <421FCBF9.1020003@XLsigned.net>


> This patch has already been posted to linux-fbdev on 2005-02-10 by David Vrabel
> and made me ask
> 	Is there any reason why this has been originally flagged "__init"?
> 	"vesa_modes" is not "__init". That's why I changed "intelfb" to
> 	use "vesa_modes".
> 
> Maybe time has come to decide, if availability of "modedb" outside
> of init functions is more important than freeing (unused) kernel memory.

Well, I wonder why we need that mode db at all ... We should probably
use VESA modes and calculate using the standard formula if the user
requests a mode that isn't in the vesa table... Most monitors will
provide additional detailed timings for non-vesa modes they may
support.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-26  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-24  4:18 2.6.11-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24  6:24 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Michael Neuffer
2005-02-24 15:49   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24  6:29 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Matt Mackall
2005-02-24 12:49   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-02-24 14:25     ` 2.6.11-rc5 Steven Rostedt
2005-02-24 14:57       ` 2.6.11-rc5 M.Baris Demiray
2005-02-24 15:39         ` 2.6.11-rc5 Sergey Vlasov
2005-02-24 15:57           ` 2.6.11-rc5 Steven Rostedt
2005-02-24 15:53         ` 2.6.11-rc5 Gabriel Paubert
2005-02-24 14:50 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-24 17:14   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-24 23:28   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-25  7:08     ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-25  7:29       ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-25 13:30         ` 2.6.11-rc5 Mws
2005-02-26  0:50           ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 11:36             ` 2.6.11-rc5 Mws
2005-03-01 14:36               ` 2.6.11-rc5 Helge Hafting
2005-03-01 14:39                 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Mws
2005-03-01 21:38               ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 22:01                 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Mws
2005-02-25 17:29         ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-25 17:59           ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.6.11-rc5 James Simmons
2005-02-25 20:24             ` Olaf Hering
2005-02-25 21:21               ` Olaf Hering
2005-02-25 23:30                 ` Olaf Hering
2005-02-26  1:01                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-26  9:52                     ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-02-26  0:58                 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-26  0:57               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-26  0:54           ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-26  0:41   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-26  0:49     ` 2.6.11-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26  0:53       ` 2.6.11-rc5 Olaf Hering
2005-02-26  1:04         ` 2.6.11-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26  1:08       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.6.11-rc5 Buttchereit, Axel (XL)
2005-02-26  1:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-02-26  1:13     ` 2.6.11-rc5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-26  7:41       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.6.11-rc5 Antonino A. Daplas
2005-02-27  8:07       ` 2.6.11-rc5 Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-02-24 15:57 ` 2.6.11-rc5 (compile stats) John Cherry
2005-02-24 16:30 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Brian Gerst
2005-02-24 17:00   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2005-02-25 21:47 ` 2.6.11-rc5 Bill Davidsen
2005-02-25 21:50   ` 2.6.11-rc5 Lee Revell
2005-02-26  5:03     ` 2.6.11-rc5 Bill Davidsen
2005-02-27 20:32 ` 2.6.11-rc5, rivafb i2c oops, bogus error handling Olaf Hering
2005-02-28 14:41   ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 12:02     ` Olaf Hering
2005-03-01 20:58     ` Olaf Hering

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