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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Fbdev development list 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fbdev sysfs support.
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:28:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040207012841.GG4492@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402070122270.19559-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > This function will not get called until the sysfs node stops being busy,
> > so it should all work properly.  But only if that fb_info structure was
> > allocated dynamically, unlike all of the current fb drivers (see my
> > other comment about this patch.)
> > 
> > So in that case, this will cause us to try to call kfree on a static
> > structure :(
> 
> I plan to move every driver to framebuffer_alloc. 

When?  With this patchset?  Or at a later time?  It all needs to be done
at the same time to prevent easy kernel oopses.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-07  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-07  0:34 fbdev sysfs support James Simmons
2004-02-07  0:59 ` Greg KH
2004-02-07  1:01   ` James Simmons
2004-02-07  1:10     ` viro
2004-02-07  1:19       ` Greg KH
2004-02-07  1:22         ` viro
2004-02-07  1:23         ` James Simmons
2004-02-07  1:28           ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-07  1:31             ` viro
2004-02-07  1:29           ` viro
2004-02-07  1:15     ` Greg KH
2004-02-07  1:24       ` viro
2004-02-07  1:23     ` Greg KH

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