On Wed, 22 September 2010 James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have a tree at > > > > > > http://git.infradead.org/users/jsimmons/linuxconsole-2.6.git > > > > > > but currently fbcon is broken so I'm tracing down the problem. > > > > Thanks for the reference to your tree! > > > > What's you opinion regarding my changes to fbcon in my RFC patch? > > Are they ok or would you prefer having fbcon changed to stop peeking > > at registered_fb list and just operate directly on fb_info everywhere > > it needs it? (that is let con2fb_map[] point to fb_info instead of > > indexes into registered_fb? (I have a preference for the second one > > and will try it out) > > I'm aiming to kill off registered_fb. I agree that fb_info should be used > directly and we can avoid the ref-count. As for con2fb_map that is a > little more complex. Refcounting can't be fully avoided on fb side but certainly can be on (most of) fbcon side (except around fbcon's calls to fbops.fb_open and fbops.fb_release). Will attempt the fbcon change as a separate patch my ref-counted fb_info patch will depend on. (will probably happen during week-end) Thanks, Bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
