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Message-ID: <653402b90610260755t75b3a539rb5f54bad0688c3c1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:55:36 +0000
From: "Miguel Ojeda" <maxextreme@...il.com>
To: "Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 full] drivers: add LCD support
On 10/23/06, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@...il.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@...il.com> wrote:
> > Yes, we are sure. AFAIK there is no need to lock when it is a fbdev.
> > The older version were "alone" drivers: they needed to lock because
> > they used fops and they exported functions.
> >
>
> ok, so no other driver than fb could use 'cfag12864b_buffer'. Maybe
> I'm missing something but why did you split your fb driver into
> cfag12864b.c and cfag12864fb.c ?
>
To be clearer. And you are wrong: you can write other modules which
want to know what the LCD is showing, or use it; without worrying
about framebuffer things. They can read / write "cfag12864b_buffer" as
well as cfag12864bfb do. Why not?
The cfag12864b module is the real driver, which uses ks0108 module.
The cfag12864bfb is just the framebuffer device.
>
> BTW, 'cfag12864b_cache' could have been static...
Right, I saw that in the meantime I was adding the mmap feature. Thanks.
>
> Franck
>
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