linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

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Message-ID: <20060802012852.GD22589@redhat.com>
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

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