Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.11-rc5

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> This patch has already been posted to linux-fbdev on 2005-02-10 by David Vrabel
> and made me ask
> 	Is there any reason why this has been originally flagged "__init"?
> 	"vesa_modes" is not "__init". That's why I changed "intelfb" to
> 	use "vesa_modes".
> 
> Maybe time has come to decide, if availability of "modedb" outside
> of init functions is more important than freeing (unused) kernel memory.

Well, I wonder why we need that mode db at all ... We should probably
use VESA modes and calculate using the standard formula if the user
requests a mode that isn't in the vesa table... Most monitors will
provide additional detailed timings for non-vesa modes they may
support.

Ben.


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