Re: [PATCH] fbdefio: add set_page_dirty handler to deferred IO FB

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:40:54 +0100
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:57:53 +0100 Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >  	}
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO
> > > +	if (info->fbdefio)
> > > +		fb_deferred_io_open(info, inode, file);
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > eww, hacky, but drivers/video/fbmem.c already got hacky:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO
> >         .fsync =        fb_deferred_io_fsync,
> > #endif
> > 
> > so it's not an original sin.
> 
> That's what I figured.

A better implementation would be to change the fb_ops.fb_open()
arguments, or to add fb_ops.fb_open2() with the file*.

Also, that .fsync thing should be done properly via a new fb_ops.fb_fsync().

But neither are pressing issues and I guess can be left for when Jaya
is feeling bored?

> > Does it work?
> 
> Yep.

OK, thanks, I guess we're done with this for now.