On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Otto Solares wrote:

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:53:14AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
- bus_id for each fbdev, so from userland became posible to identify
  to which card we are controlling.  I know it should be exported via
  sysfs but an ioctl should be really handy as when you program for
  fbdev anyway you have to use ioctl's, just to get the bus_is will
  be a pain use sysfs.

But the goal is to replace these ioctl()s by sysfs, too, isn't it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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