Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New FBDev patch

[Kronos]

Il Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:03:54PM +0000, James Simmons ha scritto: 
> 
> This is the latest patch against 2.6.0-rc3. Give it a try.
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

> <kronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (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 ;)

Luca
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