From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750769AbWGKNko (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:40:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750770AbWGKNko (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:40:44 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:21114 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbWGKNkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:40:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lWQdEQqk6etDK2JO0h7NfiZe4durWu++W6PAODyyq+Dg0ptPJpRpWLz5qZ4XHQP4GEyb0he1dri1Z67Jj+YRz2cKagmecFzQnC68KMFhDi6wuoHzkkkrHq2awZcNGJav21UnvUKJwZ16fqZcdtkeP/WN/byUeaJP7dHCkEy4jHw= Message-ID: <44B3AA51.1040003@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:40:33 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: Andrew Morton , rdunlap@xenotime.net, mreuther@umich.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zap@homelink.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Statically link the framebuffer notification functions References: <200607100833.00461.mreuther@umich.edu> <20060710113212.5ddn42t40ks44s00@engin.mail.umich.edu> <44B27931.30609@gmail.com> <200607102327.38426.mreuther@umich.edu> <20060710215253.1fcaab57.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44B34D68.3080602@gmail.com> <20060711032817.94c78ae0.akpm@osdl.org> <44B39D4D.8060209@gmail.com> <9e4733910607110621i720db936sebdd0bcb60fab4ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607110621i720db936sebdd0bcb60fab4ad@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/11/06, Antonino A. Daplas 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