On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 18:17 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 09:22 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > >> On Thursday 06 September 2007 07:47, Alan Hourihane wrote: > >> > >>> Mmm. It seems acpi_video_bus_check() is static and therefore not > >>> available outside of video.c > >>> > >>>> BTW. I'm curious what you are trying to do. > >>>> There is actually quite a bit of movement in this code right now. > >>> Think about fbdev drivers (or some video driver).... Rather than > >>> bang on the hardware to try and do auto-detection of devices, it's much > >>> easier (and sometimes required) to just ask the system BIOS via ACPI to > >>> see what devices are available. > >>> > >>> I want to parse _DOD myself to see what's available in kernel space. > >> It would be good to have this code in only one place > >> and export it from there to other parts of the kernel that need it. > >> I'd like to be able to not have fbdev drivers depend on the acpi video driver, > >> so perhaps we could have some generic interface where fbdev is the consumer > >> and in this case acpi/video.c is the provider? > > > > That sounds good. I'm open to suggestions on interface. > > > > But is there anything better available now to scan the namespace in > > current released kernels for _DOD ? > 2.6.23-rc5 has it... Thanks Alexey, I'll take a look. Alan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
