Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:59:09 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer |
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:52:19PM +0100, Kronos wrote: > Il Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:30:30PM -0800, Greg KH ha scritto: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:49:56PM +0100, Kronos wrote: > > > Hi, > > > the following patch (against 2.6.5-rc2) teaches fb to use class_simple. > > > With this patch udev will automagically create device nodes for each > > > framebuffer registered. Once all drivers are converted to > > > framebuffer_{alloc,release} we can switch to our own class. > > > > yeah, it's about time! Didn't I post this patch a few months ago... :) > > Hum, I remeber your patch that did the same thing, but it didn't use > class_simple, did it?
I think I had one version that did, but who cares, it doesn't really matter :)
> > > notebook:~# tree /sys/class/graphics/ > > > /sys/class/graphics/ > > > > "graphics"? Why that? Why not "fb"? > > > > It doesn't really matter to me, just curious. > > It was discussed a while ago (this is James): > > <quote> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:24, Kronos wrote: > > > > +static struct class fb_class = { > > > > + .name = "video", > > > > > > I'd rather use "display" here. "video" is too broad and will cause > > > confusion with multimedia stuff. > > > > Exactly my comment. I was thinking about `graphics' instead of > > `video', but indeed `display' sounds better. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > I prefere graphics myself. Display sounds to generic. That is what video > and graphics output is piped to. Since fbdev doesn't handle video ouput > normally this is kind of fuzzy sounding. > </quote>
Well, /sys/class/video is already taken by the V4L core code, so if "graphics" doesn't confuse people, it's ok with me.
thanks,
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