Re: Changing modes with fbset

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:09:47PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

quoted

Agree.  Problem is that sysfs stuff is very invasive i think and it
will be hard to push even on development trees like -mm ones.  An
ioctl could be something simple as passing a pointer to a buffer
of fixed length, the best imho would be extend fb_fix_screeninfo
struct to accomodate a 'char busid[16];' but that could break
binary compatibility.  If 2.6 break from 2.4 we could put it
there as anyway apps need to recompile.  Shame that there are
not sufficient 'reserved' bits.

We can just add it to fb_info and return if from an ioctl...

Great! hopefully James will agree!.. :)

-solca



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