On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Paul Mundt wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:09:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

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In general, what are the fbdev drivers doing here btw?  It's very strange
that some core file (fbmem.c) has to "know" about individual card drivers.
It should be sufficient for the driver to just register itself with the core
at the drivers's module_init() time.

This is done for device ordering as far as I recall. Devices listed first on
the command line are numbered first, with the rest coming up in the order that
they're listed in fb_drivers[].

Indeed. It's there so people can choose which is their primary display, if they
have multiple cards.

Also cards that lack proper resource management can be initalized last.




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