Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

Greg KH
2007-03-21T00:16:40Z

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:25:49PM +0000, James Simmons 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.

Looks good to me.

thanks,

greg k-h