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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ioe-lkml@rameria.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@hansmi.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix usage of blank value passed to fb_blank
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:40:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DC9B86.2000200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060129001832.4fe6fd7f.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this may cause some userland breakage.  X should work.
>>  However, some apps may have been developed that uses the FB_BLANK constants
>>  (DirectFB?).  In these cases, they'll get a deeper blank level instead, so it
>>  probably won't affect them significantly.  A follow up patch that hides the 
>>  FB_BLANK constants may be worthwhile.
> 
> Would prefer to avoid any userland breakage.  Is this followup patch
> happening?

I'm still doing research on which major fb apps depend on the FB_BLANK constants, but
my guess is that the follow up patch is inevitable. We cannot avoid bending over
backwards for X :(

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-29 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-27 23:13 [PATCH] framebuffer: Remove old radeon driver Michael Hanselmann
2006-01-28  4:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-28  4:46   ` David S. Miller
2006-01-28  5:59     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-28 20:06       ` Ingo Oeser
2006-01-29  2:18         ` [PATCH] fbdev: Fix usage of blank value passed to fb_blank Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-29  8:18           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29 10:40             ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-01-29 14:42           ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Ville Syrjälä
2006-01-29 22:19             ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-29 23:34             ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-30 10:22               ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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