Re: fbdev and power management
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2003-07-09 17:36:05
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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 19:45, James Simmons wrote:
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My concern is that there has been: - 4 months of non-exposure of this work - 4 months of making the current system work - and putting it in will require a fair number of drivers to be re-worked. Apart from driver re-work and that the core interfaces are supposed to be stable, what are the technical arguments against merging it, say, today?This is the reason I have waited.
Those changes will only affect drivers, there is still need for some mecanism to deal with fbcon. I'll send you a patch before the end of the week hopefully. There may be a better way of doing it than my patch by having fbcon be someway a child of the HW driver in the device-tree, but it's a bit nasty right now, and my patch adds a more generic way to notify "clients" of fbdev's (like fbcon) of events at the low level that could be used for hotplug monitor change notification or whatever... Ben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps