From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, mreuther@umich.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zap@homelink.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Statically link the framebuffer notification functions
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:40:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B3AA51.1040003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607110621i720db936sebdd0bcb60fab4ad@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer
>> of blanking events. However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function
>> independently from the framebuffer layer. But in order to enable to
>> the lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled
>> also,
>> effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code. Besides, the
>> dependency
>> is introducing a lot of compilation problems.
>
> This code is effectively rebuilding a fb specific version of
> inter_module_get/put., something that was removed earlier.
Huh? I don't see any semblance of inter_module_* or symbol_* in there.
Read the patch again.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 12:32 Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1 Matt Reuther
2006-07-10 13:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-10 15:32 ` Matt Reuther
2006-07-10 15:58 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 3:27 ` Matt Reuther
2006-07-11 4:52 ` [PATCH] appledisplay/backlight (Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1) Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 6:54 ` [PATCH] backlight: lcd: Remove dependency from the framebuffer layer Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 7:04 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 10:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-11 10:36 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 12:45 ` [PATCH] fbdev: Statically link the framebuffer notification functions Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 12:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 13:21 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-11 13:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2006-07-11 13:46 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-11 14:34 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 14:43 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-11 14:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 15:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-11 15:21 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 5:16 ` [PATCH] sound-miro unknown symbols (Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1) Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 6:56 ` Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1 Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-11 11:20 ` Matt Reuther
2006-07-11 13:12 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-12 12:41 ` Matt Reuther
2006-07-12 15:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
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