From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751400AbXDABYY (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:24:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751357AbXDABYY (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:24:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:44030 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbXDABYX (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:24:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:24:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: James Simmons Cc: adaplas@gmail.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie, geert@linux-m68k.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements Message-Id: <20070331182400.317728d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070326195807.184474d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-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 Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:56:28 +0100 (BST) James Simmons wrote: > > I can't seem to duplicate this error. OK, I'll poke at it some more. > Do you have any patches applied to > the nvidia driver? I don't think so - whatever's in -mm. > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > 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 > >