Re: [PATCH] framebuffer: Remove old radeon driver

[Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>]

On Saturday 28 January 2006 06:59, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> The console layer has 5 blanking levels, with FB_BLANK_NORMAL defined
> as "soft blank" (or blank the display without turning off display sync
> signals) -- a console invention.  However, VESA has only 4 levels.
> 
> This can be easily fixed by incrementing the blank value by one if
> the request originated from userspace.  I'll provide a patch
> soon.

May I suggest to hide this implementation detail?

E.g. please provide a macro/function blank_fb2vesa() just
for this detail instead of doing magic increments in those drivers.

Many thanks!


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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