Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New FBDev patch

[James Simmons]

> > http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
> 
> > <kronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (03/09/17 1.1267.40.1)
> >    Add new API framebuffer_alloc and framebuffer_release.
> >    
> >    Framebuffer info structure (ie. struct fb_info) must be obtained from
> >    framebuffer_alloc. When it is no longer needed (after unregister_framebuffer
> >    and clean up) it can be released using framebuffer_release.
> >    
> >    If the framebuffer is not registered yet (eg. on error path) then fb_info must
> >    be released via kfree. 
> 
> 
> Are we sure that we want this for 2.6? Greg KH has a much less intrusive
> patch, maybe you should take that instead and keep my work 2.7.
> 
> If you decide to go with framebuffer_alloc then I have more patches for
> you ;)

I have been using it for awhile on various cards. 


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