There is a big thread about this on lkml currently.

--- Kronos <kronos@people.it> wrote:

Il Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:57:59PM +0100, Alan Cox ha scritto: 

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7) Mode setting from normal user space - devices will have a

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IOCTL accepting a mode string like fbdev currently uses.

sysfs? I sent a patch a while ago but didn't get much feedback.

How do you atomically tie sysfs objects to fbdev and X permissions
models?

It's not atomic right now, the attribute is attached to a
class_device
object after register_framebuffer (which init & register the
class_device). Is this a problem?

Luca
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