From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932716AbXC0D6t (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:58:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932785AbXC0D6t (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:58:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:37382 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932716AbXC0D6s (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:58:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:58:07 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: James Simmons Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Airlie , Geert Uytterhoeven , Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements Message-Id: <20070326195807.184474d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons wrote: > This patch does several things to allow the underlying hardware to be > shared amount many devices. The most important thing is the use of > the created device via device_create instead of the hardware device. No > longer should fbdev drivers use the xxx_set_drvdata with the parent > bus device. The second change is having a bus independent power management > for the framebuffer driver. The final change is using the release method > to cleanup the device. The reason again is to make the fbdev driver > independent of the bus parent device. Feedback is welcomed. Causes an early crash on the powermac G5. http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000489.jpg (the oops is the usual powerpc mess) config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt