Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 02:12, Jon Smirl wrote:

> The radeon driver has that extra code for intializing older DDC. That
> can be handled generically in the I2C layer by writing a ddc driver
> that is a superset of the eeprom driver.  I'd rather get that code
> into a generic driver than repeat it in every video card driver.

I'm not a fan of this solution as you know... oh well... and there's
all that code to detect non-DDC capable monitors as well, which won't
go through /sys/*/i2c...

But do as you like, I don't have time to work on it so I'll shut up.

Ben.


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