On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > square on matroxfb); video4linux (in)compatibility). I received
> >
> > The video4linux case is very disputable: opening a hardware device twice is bad
> > practice. You're not allowed to do that with e.g. audio neither.
>
> I've always thought that video4linux devices on video cards should be
> sub-modules of the framebuffer device... IMHO opening two devices is ok
> as long as both drivers are aware of each other, and cooperate...
One the kernel level they should be aware of each other. Since it possible
to mix different v4l cards with different framebuffer device.
"Look its a text editor, no its a OS, no its Emacs"
James Simmons (o_
fbdev/gfx developer (o_ (o_ //\
http://www.linux-fbdev.org (/)_ (/)_ V_/_
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Mar 15 2000 - 21:00:25 EST