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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] vesafb and *fb

I don't know why it is that way. I would think it should fail at this
point. Anyone know why this is?


> Yesterday I noticed on a box at work that if you compile in both vesafb and
> atyfb (the box has an ATI 3D RAGE PRO), you get both fb0 (atyfb) and fb1
> (vesafb). That's not supposed to happen.
>
> Vesafb did print that the frame buffer was already in use, but it just
> continued, cfr. this code:
>
> if (!request_mem_region(vesafb_fix.smem_start, vesafb_fix.smem_len, "vesafb")) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING
> "vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0x%lx\n",
> vesafb_fix.smem_start);
> /* We cannot make this fatal. Sometimes this comes from magic
> spaces our resource handlers simply don't know about */
> }
>
> That was on plain 2.6.5. But to my surprise the latest 2.4 behaves the same.
> This seems to have been changed in 2.4.15.
> Does anyone know why this was changed?
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
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> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
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