linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

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Message-Id: <20070331182400.317728d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:24:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:	adaplas@...il.com, linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, airlied@...ux.ie,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:56:28 +0100 (BST) James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to duplicate this error.

OK, I'll poke at it some more.

>  Do you have any patches applied to 
> the nvidia driver?

I don't think so - whatever's in -mm.

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch does several things to allow the underlying hardware to be 
> > > shared amount many devices. The most important thing is the use of
> > > the created device via device_create instead of the hardware device. No 
> > > longer should fbdev drivers use the xxx_set_drvdata with the parent
> > > bus device. The second change is having a bus independent power management
> > > for the framebuffer driver. The final change is using the release method 
> > > to cleanup the device. The reason again is to make the fbdev driver 
> > > independent of the bus parent device. Feedback is welcomed.
> > 
> > Causes an early crash on the powermac G5.
> > 
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000489.jpg (the oops is the usual powerpc
> > mess)
> > 
> > config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt
> > 
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