Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

Andrew Morton
2007-03-27T03:58:49Z

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