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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:28:52 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking. On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:20:49AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > >> A naiive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem: > >> is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for > >> example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system? > > > > We don't do console multihead so its basically OK. Moving all the > > console globals into a struct so we can have multiple instances would be > > a good thing [tm] and it would make sense for the variable to end up in > > said structure if it was done. > > > > Here's an update. Taking Alan's cue, I just moved the global variables > to struct fbcon_ops. Good job. Have another.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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