Re: [PATCH] non-linear frame buffer read/write access

Thomas Koeller wrote:
> While the code in fbmem.c allows for hooking read/write access
> to non-linear frame buffers by means of fb_read and fb_write
> in struct fb_ops, I could not find a way tho access the actual
> frame buffer memory from within these routines. I therefore
> had to patch fbmem.c, to be able to retrieve a pointer to
> struct fb_info from the 'file' argument to these functions.
> 
> The second hunk of the patch is not strictly required, I only
> did that for symmetry reasons (and the code is somewhat
> shorter).
> 
> Patch is against 2.6.14
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <[email protected]>

Okay.

Tony

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