On 10/9/2006 12:45 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On 10/9/06, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
...
>> What is advantage of /dev/cfag12864bX over /dev/fbcfag12864b ?
>>
>> (And I guess you should invent better name... /dev/fbaux0?)
If the driver exposes sensible information, udev can give names.
...
>> I do not think it is suitable for -rc at this point, and it does not
>> have chance before 2.6.20-rc1, anyway.
>
> No? Why not? Time is not a problem, I would want to know why are you
> saying that.
Linus currently has a rule for merge windows; akpm certainly doesn't.
On 10/8/2006 11:36 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
||| I have no problem coding the fbcfag12864b module in my free time;
||| but I prefer to remain the other modules as they are now and add
||| the fbcfag12864b later in time: I'm waiting them to get into one
||| of the -rcs without more radical changes.
An interface which promises to be future-proof, especially if it is an
interface to userspace, is of course a requirement to get into mainline
in the first place. (However I don't know enough about the interfaces
discussed here nor about your requirements to say anything specifically
about your interface or the one Pavel suggested.)
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