From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263667AbTLXQpw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:45:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263679AbTLXQpw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:45:52 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:1413 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263667AbTLXQpu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:45:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:45:15 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kronos Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs class patches - take 2 [0/5] Message-ID: <20031224164514.GB29365@kroah.com> References: <20031223220707.GC15946@kroah.com> <20031224142717.GA3133@dreamland.darkstar.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031224142717.GA3133@dreamland.darkstar.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:27:17PM +0100, Kronos wrote: > Greg KH ha scritto: > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Interesting... I bet that will be useful to the iPAQ folks (I've been > > > wading through their patches lately), as they have created a couple > > > ultra-simple classes for SoC devices and such. > > > > I bet it will. I've ported my old frame buffer patch to use it, and > > it saved a lot of code. > > > > Hm, I wonder if the frame buffer people ever intregrated that patch... > > I had a patch that add class_device to struct fb_info. This was 3-4 > months ago. So all of the frame buffer drivers have to be changed to dynamically allocate the fb_info structure? That's the "proper" way to do this, but I felt it was a bit too late in the 2.6 development cycle to try to intregrate such a large change in... Oh well, greg k-h