Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

James Simmons
2007-04-01T00:56:39Z

I can't seem to duplicate this error. Do you have any patches applied to
the nvidia driver?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > This patch does several things to allow the underlying hardware to be
> > shared amount many devices. The most important thing is the use of
> > the created device via device_create instead of the hardware device. No
> > longer should fbdev drivers use the xxx_set_drvdata with the parent
> > bus device. The second change is having a bus independent power management
> > for the framebuffer driver. The final change is using the release method
> > to cleanup the device. The reason again is to make the fbdev driver
> > independent of the bus parent device. Feedback is welcomed.
>
> Causes an early crash on the powermac G5.
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000489.jpg (the oops is the usual powerpc
> mess)
>
> config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt
>