On 5/2/06, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
Jon Smirl wrote: > All of these have been proposed before. I think you forgot to attach the patch > In my opinion an 'enable' > attribute is the worst solution in the bunch. you again limit yourself to VGA. I don't.
Haven't we learned that mucking with hardware from user space without having a device driver loaded is a very bad idea. What is the motivation for providing an API whose only purpose is to enable this bad behavior? -- Jon Smirl [email protected] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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