Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:52:19 +0100 | From | Kronos <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] Sysfs for framebuffer |
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Il Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:30:30PM -0800, Greg KH ha scritto: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:49:56PM +0100, Kronos wrote: > > Hi, > > the following patch (against 2.6.5-rc2) teaches fb to use class_simple. > > With this patch udev will automagically create device nodes for each > > framebuffer registered. Once all drivers are converted to > > framebuffer_{alloc,release} we can switch to our own class. > > yeah, it's about time! Didn't I post this patch a few months ago... :)
Hum, I remeber your patch that did the same thing, but it didn't use class_simple, did it?
> Anyway, it looks good, I only have one comment: > > > notebook:~# tree /sys/class/graphics/ > > /sys/class/graphics/ > > "graphics"? Why that? Why not "fb"? > > It doesn't really matter to me, just curious.
It was discussed a while ago (this is James):
<quote> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:24, Kronos wrote: > > > +static struct class fb_class = { > > > + .name = "video", > > > > I'd rather use "display" here. "video" is too broad and will cause > > confusion with multimedia stuff. > > Exactly my comment. I was thinking about `graphics' instead of > `video', but indeed `display' sounds better. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
I prefere graphics myself. Display sounds to generic. That is what video and graphics output is piped to. Since fbdev doesn't handle video ouput normally this is kind of fuzzy sounding. </quote>
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