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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fb.h cleanup
On Tue Jan 11, 2000 at 08:24:28AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Mon Jan 10, 2000 at 09:55:32AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, James A Simmons wrote:
> > > > Please test this patch. It's against a pre-2.3.39-2. Once you are happy
> > > > with it Geert can you send it to linus. Thank you.
> > >
> > > > -#define FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO 0x4600
> > > > +#define FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO _IOWR(FB_IOC_MAGIC, 0, struct fb_var_screeninfo)
> > >
> > > Are these backwards compatible on all platforms?
> >
> > Does it matter? From user space you already have to do a
> >
> > #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,0)
> > foo
> > #else
> > bar
> > #endif
> >
> > since things like struct fb_var_screeninfo already
> > had its internals changed.
>
> No you don't. All changes until now were backwards compatible.
>

Not this one.

In 2.0.x:
struct fb_var_screeninfo {
...
int accel; /* see FB_ACCEL_* */
...
}

In 2.2.x:
struct fb_var_screeninfo {
...
__u32 accel_flags; /* acceleration flags (hints) */
...
}

-Erik

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