linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

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Date:	Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:05:09 +0100
From:	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>
To:	Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 schrieb Giuseppe Bilotta:
> From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@...il.com>

> Solve the issue by introducing a new boolean module parameter (useedid)
> which can be set to 0 to prevent the driver from using the EDID
> information.

I don't know whether this is possible, but wouldn't be a cleaner approach be 
to put this parameter to something fb specific and not nvidia specific? As 
Nvidia fb proabably isn't the only one using edid and so it wouldn't be 
necessary to introduce such a parameter for every fb driver...

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