The patch titled fbdev: add removed option "mode" to keep compatibility has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fbdev: add removed option "mode" to keep compatibility From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> Add removed option "mode" to keep compatibility with existing setups. The option is back for pm2fb, tridentfb and vt8623fb drivers. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/pm2fb.c | 2 ++ drivers/video/tridentfb.c | 2 ++ drivers/video/vt8623fb.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/video/pm2fb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility drivers/video/pm2fb.c --- a/drivers/video/pm2fb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility +++ a/drivers/video/pm2fb.c @@ -1837,6 +1837,8 @@ module_exit(pm2fb_exit); module_param(mode_option, charp, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode_option, "Initial video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60'"); +module_param_named(mode, mode_option, charp, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Initial video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60' (deprecated)"); module_param(lowhsync, bool, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(lowhsync, "Force horizontal sync low regardless of mode"); module_param(lowvsync, bool, 0); diff -puN drivers/video/tridentfb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility drivers/video/tridentfb.c --- a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility +++ a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static int nativex; module_param(mode_option, charp, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode_option, "Initial video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60'"); +module_param_named(mode, mode_option, charp, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Initial video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60' (deprecated)"); module_param(bpp, int, 0); module_param(center, int, 0); module_param(stretch, int, 0); diff -puN drivers/video/vt8623fb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility drivers/video/vt8623fb.c --- a/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c~fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility +++ a/drivers/video/vt8623fb.c @@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("fbdev driver for int module_param(mode_option, charp, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode_option, "Default video mode ('640x480-8@60', etc)"); +module_param_named(mode, mode_option, charp, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Default video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60' (deprecated)"); #ifdef CONFIG_MTRR module_param(mtrr, int, 0444); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from krzysztof.h1@xxxxx are pm2fb-correct-error-values-returned-from-probe-function.patch pm2fb-change-option-mode-to-mode_option.patch tridentfb-change-option-mode-to-mode_option.patch pm3fb-change-option-mode-to-mode_option.patch update-modedbtxt-documentation-about-mode_option-parameter-change.patch vt8623fb-change-option-mode-to-mode_option.patch arkfb-add-option-mode_option.patch s3fb-add-option-mode_option.patch fbdev-add-removed-option-mode-to-keep-compatibility.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html