From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:33:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1C8oiI-0001xU-UG@evo.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:12:17 EDT." <9e47339104091815125ef78738@mail.gmail.com>
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Around 18 o'clock on Sep 18, Jon Smirl wrote:
> The sysfs scheme has the advantage that there is no special user
> command required. You just use echo or cp to set the mode.
But it makes it difficult to associate the sysfs entry with the particular
session. Seems like permitting multiple opens of /dev/fb0 with mode
setting done on that file pointer will be easier to keep straight
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-18 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 18:43 Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 19:58 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 22:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 22:37 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 23:33 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2004-09-19 0:54 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 1:57 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 2:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 2:32 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 10:11 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 9:55 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 4:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-20 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-20 1:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 4:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:46 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 17:19 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 20:40 ` Keith Packard
2004-09-20 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-19 20:44 ` Felix Kühling
2004-09-20 1:25 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-20 0:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 12:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 15:56 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-21 15:42 ` Alan Cox
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[not found] ` <2G6Et-6D7-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-19 14:18 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-19 15:00 ` P. Benie
2004-09-19 19:08 ` Pascal Schmidt
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