> > Yes the drivers should always have priority. The other stuff is there
> > only if the drivers have no power management of any kind. I leave it up to
> > the driver write to implement a fb_blank function that handles different
> > cases.
>
> The drivers don't have priority though. You call set_par, and then
> wander off into the internals of fbgen.c to set can_soft_blank youself,
> without giving the drivers any look-in to set that correctly.
Your right. That is a bug from the old fbgen code. Since few driver used
the old fbgen code it never appeared. I suggest we remove can_soft_blank
and just test to see if the function pointer exist for fb_blank. If it
doesn't then we can resort to other tricks in suggested in the ther email.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Oct 23 2002 - 22:00:44 EST