Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:50:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] framebuffer devfs support (umm redone..) |
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Mark 'segfault' Guzman wrote: > Welp i went back and noticed my stupidity (thanks to many emails notifying me of it) > now the code is in fbmem.c only. I changed it to make only numerical entries in /dev/fb > and link them as fb<device number> in /dev. It also now only creates entries for the devices > you have. Works perfectly on my box. If anybody has any complaints, suggestions, objections > tell me. If something seems wrong, it probably is so tell me.
One caveat: frame buffer devices can be loadable modules. {register,unregister}_framebuffer() will tell you when a new bloke enters or leaves the game.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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