Re: fbdev sysfs support.

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > This function will not get called until the sysfs node stops being busy,
> > so it should all work properly.  But only if that fb_info structure was
> > allocated dynamically, unlike all of the current fb drivers (see my
> > other comment about this patch.)
> > 
> > So in that case, this will cause us to try to call kfree on a static
> > structure :(
> 
> I plan to move every driver to framebuffer_alloc. 

When?  With this patchset?  Or at a later time?  It all needs to be done
at the same time to prevent easy kernel oopses.

thanks,

greg k-h
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