Re: [linux-fbdev] fbdev 2.4.0 cleanups

From: James A Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 10:31:02 EST


> > There is O_NDELAY for audio devices, is not it? BTW, it is really surprising
> > that I cannot run 'fbset' from XF86_FBDev anymore :-( Or when I'm watching
> > TV... And because of you need to open an /dev/fb* to get con2fb map,
> > at least one mine application stopped working on /dev/fb1 if
> > /dev/fb1 is unused, but /dev/fb0 is used.
>
> Two more reasons for delaying this until 2.5.0 and reworking it (like allowing
> multiple opens, but only for a limited set of operations (no mmap(), no write,
> no set_var)).

And seting colormap. Yeah it pretty much only allows open and close on
fbdev driver. Maybe read.

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