Re: PATCH Proposal make FB_ACCEL_ private to the driver

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Henk Vergonet wrote:

This post was originally posted to the kernel-janitors list. After which
I learned there was an active development-list for linux-framebuffer stuff. 

I'm afraid you will never see this reply, as rememberme@systol.god.lan won't
resolve....

I want to propose to localize the maintenance and registration of the
FB_ACCEL_ id's and remove it from the public fb.h include file.

Motivation:
- This removes an unneeded dependency to fb.h if an additional cards/chips are
  introduced. (These id's are only interesting for the driver anyhow. 
  Only fbset will print out the id, but I'll doubt this is used by anyone.)

Yes, it's used by userspace apps that need to know the graphics card type (e.g.
DirectFB and the good old XF68_FBDev).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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