On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Ok, but I guess you should cc auxdisplay people in future. > > Hi Pavel, > > I just looked at the drivers/auxdisplay directory and got a bit > confused. The reason I got confused is because auxdisplay is actually > an fbdev driver but it is outside of the drivers/video directory. It > looks like there has only been 1 commit and that was for the Samsung > KS0108 controller. It also sort of uses platform support but the way > it is abstracted is odd to my thinking. The controller is ks0108, so > in my mind that would be the code that would be platform independent, > and then that would use a board specific IO driver to push data (eg: > parport or gpio or usb). I think in the long term it would probably > make sense to write a cleaner approach with a drivers/video/ks0108.c > which is cleanly platform independent (and back within fbdev proper) > and then a board specific driver in the appropriate location that > handles the IO. I wrote long ago the driver(s) and people that reviewed it thought it was better to keep it outside. I think that if someone else is going to need ks0108, then I agree: we should write a independent driver. It should not be hard, it is an easy controller to play with and the code is already there. I would try to do it; however, I am not sure if I would be the most appropriate person to code such generic driver, as I know almost nothing about all drivers/video/* stuff and the ways of making it truly generic for future video/ users. Still, I will help gladly. > > Thanks, > jaya > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
