On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > > At least we know the error is in drivers/video/fbmem.c:fbmem_read_proc()
> >
> > and at least we know there is something wrong. why is fbmem compiled in
> > at all?
>
> Well, that's not wrong per se and is actually valid at least for
> CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL. And the code should fail gracefully if there nothing
> useful to do.
You do not want to set CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL=y, since the virtual frame buffer
device is meant for testing only.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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