Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New FBDev patch
From: James Simmons (jsimmons_at_infradead.org)
Date: 01/09/04
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:06:06 +0000 (GMT) To: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
> > 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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