linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 V9] drivers: add LCD support

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Message-ID: <452A4FA1.10701@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:33:21 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@...il.com>
CC:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 V9] drivers: add LCD support

On 10/9/2006 12:45 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On 10/9/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
...
>> What is advantage of /dev/cfag12864bX over /dev/fbcfag12864b ?
>>
>> (And I guess you should invent better name... /dev/fbaux0?)

If the driver exposes sensible information, udev can give names.

...
>> I do not think it is suitable for -rc at this point, and it does not
>> have chance before 2.6.20-rc1, anyway.
> 
> No? Why not? Time is not a problem, I would want to know why are you
> saying that.

Linus currently has a rule for merge windows; akpm certainly doesn't.

On 10/8/2006 11:36 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
||| I have no problem coding the fbcfag12864b module in my free time;
||| but I prefer to remain the other modules as they are now and add
||| the fbcfag12864b later in time: I'm waiting them to get into one
||| of the -rcs without more radical changes.

An interface which promises to be future-proof, especially if it is an
interface to userspace, is of course a requirement to get into mainline
in the first place. (However I don't know enough about the interfaces
discussed here nor about your requirements to say anything specifically
about your interface or the one Pavel suggested.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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