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From: "Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
To: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <maxextreme@gmail.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:27:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159723673.14141.272274719@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061001094342.55a331d1.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:43:42 -0700, "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
said:
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:05:58 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:51:24 +0200, Stefan Richter said:
> > > I am not sure which looks prettiest. But I know that "LCD display" looks
> > > really bad to everybody who knows what the D stands for. :-)
> > 
> > Maybe I'm confused, but doesn't the D stand for *DIODE*?
>
> not that wikipedia or I know of.

I think there is a problem with the name anyhow. Would you use the 
LCD(d)isplay driver for an OLED screen?

How about auxiliary display or AUXdisplay?

Alexander

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-01 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-30 23:24 [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support Miguel Ojeda Sandonis
2006-10-01 12:53 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 13:51   ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-01 14:25     ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 16:48       ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-01 17:58         ` Miguel Ojeda
2008-04-28 23:36           ` monitordelcd
2006-10-01 16:05     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-01 16:17       ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-01 17:33         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-01 16:43       ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-01 17:27         ` Alexander van Heukelum [this message]
2006-10-01 17:52           ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-01 18:25             ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-01 16:53       ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-02 18:49   ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-02 21:40     ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-03  0:06       ` Andrew James Wade
2006-10-03 12:55         ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-03 15:29           ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-02 22:06     ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 21:45       ` Miguel Ojeda

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