Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:55:07 +0200 | From | "Miguel Ojeda" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V7] drivers: add lcd display support |
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On 10/3/06, Andrew James Wade <andrew.j.wade@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm afraid not; it looks like my suggestion "LCD display" grates on > people's ears. Simply calling the device an "LCD" is probably the > best bet, and "LCD screen" would be better than "LCD monitor". Screens > can be any size, it's a fairly generic term. > > The class name and directory name should probably include the word > "display", but I don't know what the other part should be. What sort > of displays should be included in this category, and what sort > shouldn't? > > Andrew Wade >
My first idea was call it "display", for small/medium screens of any kind (LCD, OLED, FED, NED... whatever). I named it "drivers/display/", so anyone who create a driver for a display or display controller can put it there (creating a separator for its own category at Kconfig), as there aren't so many of them for now.
But people said "display" could be so generic and cause confusion with usual video drivers, so I renamed it to "drivers/lcddisplay/", as it is more expressive (however when someone will create a OLED driver will have to create a new folder...).
I would like to put any kind of display driver there (LCD, OLED...) not just LCDs and name it "drivers/display". I think people won't confuse them with VESA... as there aren't drivers for "screens", just for video cards (logically). But some people don't agree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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