Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:28:41 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: fbdev sysfs support. |
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > This function will not get called until the sysfs node stops being busy, > > so it should all work properly. But only if that fb_info structure was > > allocated dynamically, unlike all of the current fb drivers (see my > > other comment about this patch.) > > > > So in that case, this will cause us to try to call kfree on a static > > structure :( > > I plan to move every driver to framebuffer_alloc.
When? With this patchset? Or at a later time? It all needs to be done at the same time to prevent easy kernel oopses.
thanks,
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