Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:33:21 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 V9] drivers: add LCD support |
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On 10/9/2006 12:45 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On 10/9/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: ... >> What is advantage of /dev/cfag12864bX over /dev/fbcfag12864b ? >> >> (And I guess you should invent better name... /dev/fbaux0?)
If the driver exposes sensible information, udev can give names.
... >> I do not think it is suitable for -rc at this point, and it does not >> have chance before 2.6.20-rc1, anyway. > > No? Why not? Time is not a problem, I would want to know why are you > saying that.
Linus currently has a rule for merge windows; akpm certainly doesn't.
On 10/8/2006 11:36 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: ||| I have no problem coding the fbcfag12864b module in my free time; ||| but I prefer to remain the other modules as they are now and add ||| the fbcfag12864b later in time: I'm waiting them to get into one ||| of the -rcs without more radical changes.
An interface which promises to be future-proof, especially if it is an interface to userspace, is of course a requirement to get into mainline in the first place. (However I don't know enough about the interfaces discussed here nor about your requirements to say anything specifically about your interface or the one Pavel suggested.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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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