Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:24:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [BK PATCHS] fbdev updates. |
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> > Yes the drivers should always have priority. The other stuff is there > > only if the drivers have no power management of any kind. I leave it up to > > the driver write to implement a fb_blank function that handles different > > cases. > > The drivers don't have priority though. You call set_par, and then > wander off into the internals of fbgen.c to set can_soft_blank youself, > without giving the drivers any look-in to set that correctly.
Your right. That is a bug from the old fbgen code. Since few driver used the old fbgen code it never appeared. I suggest we remove can_soft_blank and just test to see if the function pointer exist for fb_blank. If it doesn't then we can resort to other tricks in suggested in the ther email.
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