From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:28:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060802012852.GD22589@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CFFDF1.6030909@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:20:49AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >> A naiive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem:
> >> is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for
> >> example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?
> >
> > We don't do console multihead so its basically OK. Moving all the
> > console globals into a struct so we can have multiple instances would be
> > a good thing [tm] and it would make sense for the variable to end up in
> > said structure if it was done.
> >
>
> Here's an update. Taking Alan's cue, I just moved the global variables
> to struct fbcon_ops.
Good job. Have another..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-02 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-01 18:56 use persistent allocation for cursor blinking Dave Jones
2006-08-01 19:15 ` Roland Dreier
2006-08-01 19:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-02 1:20 ` [PATCH] fbcon: Use " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02 1:28 ` [PATCH RESEND] " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02 1:28 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-08-01 22:17 ` use " Alan Cox
2006-08-01 22:39 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-05 21:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-06 23:46 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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