Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

Andrew Morton
2007-04-01T01:24:24Z

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:56:28 +0100 (BST) James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> I can't seem to duplicate this error.

OK, I'll poke at it some more.

> Do you have any patches applied to
> the nvidia driver?

I don't think so - whatever's in -mm.

> 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
> >