Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:21:57 -0400 | From | "Jon Smirl" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Statically link the framebuffer notification functions |
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On 7/11/06, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote: > The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer > of blanking events. However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function > independently from the framebuffer layer. But in order to enable to > the lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled also, > effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code. Besides, the dependency > is introducing a lot of compilation problems.
This code is effectively rebuilding a fb specific version of inter_module_get/put., something that was removed earlier.
Another solution would be to put this code into a tiny module and then have everyone depend on it.
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