Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 full] drivers: add LCD support

Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-23T16:08:47Z

On 10/23/06, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > The driver is waiting in the -mm tree (-mm2 right now) for being
> > included in the mainline kernel sometime in the future. If it is
> > included, I will maintain it as I coded it as it apears in the
> > MAINTAINERS file. Why are you so worried about it if I can ask? Do you
> > want some more features or something like that?
>
> Are you sure the patch you sent to Andrew is your latest patch
> version ? For example I can't found any locks in the patch that
> you normally added during the V6 patch version; auxlcddisplay.c
> doesn't no exist...
>
> Franck
>

Yes, we are sure. AFAIK there is no need to lock when it is a fbdev.
The older version were "alone" drivers: they needed to lock because
they used fops and they exported functions.