Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9847] New: i810fb: module parameter 'mode_option' inconsistent with other framebuffer modules
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From: Alain Kalker <hidden>
Date: 2008-02-02 05:27:44
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 20:37 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:18:10 +0100 Alain Kalker [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Should this be filed as a more general bug report?It is unlikely that anyone would actually act upon such a thing, I'm afraid. Maybe if we could come up with a single, centralised option parser for all the drivers and then migrate individual drivers over to or or something like that..
The reason I asked is that the current situation presents a problem to the boot scripts. Currently none of the modules support both options simultaneously, and I'm not sure if every module supports the parameter name being optional. The only sure ways to ensure that kernel boot option "video=<framebuffer>:<videomode> works as intended, is either to parse the modules' option list using modinfo (which may not be available at boot) or to try each option name in turn using "modprobe --first-time", which I find very kludgy. -Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/