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SubjectRe: kill -9 <pid of X>
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On 18 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > >>>>> "Jon" == Jon M Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> writes:
> > Jon> On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > >> Will you please stop calling them fbcon drivers then - they
> > >> clearly are not.
> >
> > Jon> Who the hell are you to say what is and is not an fbcon
> > Jon> driver? fbcon-kgi.c is a lot more conformant to the fbcon driver
> > Jon> API as a whole than a lot of the fbcon drivers that are in the
> > Jon> kernel.
> >
> > They may be abscon drivers, NOT fbcon drivers.
>
> They are frame buffer devices, hence fbcon drivers.
>
> But unfortunately we added support for frame buffer specific ioctls, and that's
> what they're (ab)using to get accel in the kernel :-)

You added ioctls to allow access to card-specific functionality,
right? Well, accels are just another type of card-specific functionality.

Jon

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