Re: fbdev tree pulled into Linus tree

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

fbdev bussiness. And while you'll move dispsw pointer, change
it to the embeded structure. It will make life easier to
atafb and matroxfb at least, as they like to modify fb_ops
according to the hardware they find, and currently they
modify structure global to the driver.

Yes, this can cause problems on machines with multiple graphics cards of the
same family, but using different acceleration features. That's why I made the
dispsw structs const, to make sure you copy them before modifying them. But now
e.g. atyfb doesn't compile anymore due to `assignment discards qualifiers from
pointer target type'.

P.S.: I do not have your new email address here at home,
and you are neither in MAINTAINERS nor in the CREDITS,
I hope that the address I randomly choosed from the credits
in fbdev files will work.

Fortunately you've picked the right one ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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