On 7/11/06, Antonino A. Daplas <[email protected]> wrote:
The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer of blanking events. However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function independently from the framebuffer layer. But in order to enable to the lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled also, effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code. Besides, the dependency is introducing a lot of compilation problems.
This code is effectively rebuilding a fb specific version of inter_module_get/put., something that was removed earlier. Another solution would be to put this code into a tiny module and then have everyone depend on it. -- 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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