Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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.
Huh? I don't see any semblance of inter_module_* or symbol_* in there.
Read the patch again.
Tony
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