[PATCH] notify fbcon if framebuffer registered

Hi,

Note: Please CC: me on replies, since i am not a member of the 
linux-fbdev-devel list!

I am helping a team at handhelds.org to port linux to the ipaq h2210, i 
was trying to get the framebuffer to start when i came across the 
problem, that our fb device is initialized after fb_console_init. I saw 
that sometime between 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 you added a notifier_chain for 
suspend/resume, so i added a new event for newly registered 
framebuffers, this helps my ipaq fb to start, when the kernel starts.

Here is the patch i came up with: (it is a patch based on the 
handhelds.org kernel sources, i hope that it still fits your sources. 
Sorry!)

I basically added a new event in fb.h and notified the event in 
register_framebuffer. I had to move the fb_register_client call in 
fb_console_init up, before "if (!num_registered_fb) because it otherwise 
did not get called in my case. in fbcon_event_notify() i just call 
take_over_console, which is what fb_console_init would have done, had 
the framebuffer been registered before, if i understood it correctly.

Regards, Patty

Index: drivers/video/fbmem.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/kernel26/drivers/video/fbmem.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.13 fbmem.c

--- drivers/video/fbmem.c	29 Feb 2004 01:49:03 -0000	1.13
+++ drivers/video/fbmem.c	1 Mar 2004 13:27:57 -0000

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@
  extern int tcx_setup(char*);
  extern int leo_init(void);
  extern int leo_setup(char*);
+extern int mq1100fb_init(void);
  extern int kyrofb_init(void);
  extern int kyrofb_setup(char*);

@@ -385,6 +386,9 @@
  #ifdef CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1
  	{ "sstfb", sstfb_init, sstfb_setup },
  #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_MQ1100
+	{ "mq1100fb", mq1100fb_init, NULL },
+#endif
  #ifdef CONFIG_FB_KYRO
  	{ "kyrofb", kyrofb_init, kyrofb_setup },
  #endif

@@ -1303,6 +1307,9 @@

  	devfs_mk_cdev(MKDEV(FB_MAJOR, i),
  			S_IFCHR | S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, "fb/%d", i);
+
+    notifier_call_chain (&fb_notifier_list, FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED, 

fb_info);
+
  	return 0;
  }

Index: drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/kernel26/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.3 fbcon.c

--- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c	29 Feb 2004 01:49:04 -0000	1.3
+++ drivers/video/console/fbcon.c	1 Mar 2004 13:27:57 -0000

@@ -2295,6 +2295,10 @@
  	case FB_EVENT_RESUME:
  		fbcon_resumed(info);
  		break;
+    case FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED:
+        /* a framebuffer was registered, try to take over the console */
+        take_over_console(&fb_con, first_fb_vc, last_fb_vc, 

fbcon_is_default);
+        break;
  	}
  	return 0;
  }

@@ -2333,16 +2337,15 @@

  int __init fb_console_init(void)
  {
-	if (!num_registered_fb)
-		return -ENODEV;
-	take_over_console(&fb_con, first_fb_vc, last_fb_vc, fbcon_is_default);
  	acquire_console_sem();
  	if (!fbcon_event_notifier_registered) {
  		fb_register_client(&fbcon_event_notifer);
  		fbcon_event_notifier_registered = 1;
  	}
  	release_console_sem();
-
+    if (!num_registered_fb)
+        return -ENODEV;
+    take_over_console(&fb_con, first_fb_vc, last_fb_vc, fbcon_is_default);
  	return 0;
  }

Index: include/linux/fb.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/kernel26/include/linux/fb.h,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.2 fb.h

--- include/linux/fb.h	29 Feb 2004 01:49:22 -0000	1.2
+++ include/linux/fb.h	1 Mar 2004 13:27:58 -0000

@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@
   *	if you own it
   */
  #define FB_EVENT_RESUME			0x03
+/*	A new framebuffer registered */
+#define FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED	0x04

  extern int fb_register_client(struct notifier_block *nb);
  extern int fb_unregister_client(struct notifier_block *nb);


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