Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:06:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New FBDev patch |
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> > http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz > > > <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net> (03/09/17 1.1267.40.1) > > Add new API framebuffer_alloc and framebuffer_release. > > > > Framebuffer info structure (ie. struct fb_info) must be obtained from > > framebuffer_alloc. When it is no longer needed (after unregister_framebuffer > > and clean up) it can be released using framebuffer_release. > > > > If the framebuffer is not registered yet (eg. on error path) then fb_info must > > be released via kfree. > > > Are we sure that we want this for 2.6? Greg KH has a much less intrusive > patch, maybe you should take that instead and keep my work 2.7. > > If you decide to go with framebuffer_alloc then I have more patches for > you ;)
I have been using it for awhile on various cards.
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