Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev, mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

Jaya Kumar
2007-02-21T23:47:55Z

On 2/21/07, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> >
> > You are right. I will need that. I could put that into struct
> > fb_deferred_io. So drivers would setup like:
> >
>
> Is it also possible to let the drivers do the 'deferred_io'
> themselves? Say, a driver that would flush the dirty pages on
> every VBLANK interrupt.

Yes, I think so. The deferred_io callback that the driver would get
would be to provide them with the dirty pages list. Then, they could
use that to handle the on-vblank work.

> > When the driver calls register_framebuffer and unregister_framebuffer,
> > I can then do the init and destruction of the other members of that
> > struct. Does this sound okay?
>
> It would be better if separate registering functions are created for
> this functionality (ie deferred_io_register/unregister).
>

Ok. Will do it that way.

Thanks,
jaya