linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/video/pm3fb.c: possible cleanups

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Message-Id: <1181040354.5023.3.camel@daplas>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:45:54 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@...pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/video/pm3fb.c: possible cleanups

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 00:12 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the following possible cleanups:

> -
> -int __init pm3fb_init(void)
> -{
> -	/*
> -	 *  For kernel boot options (in 'video=pm3fb:<options>' format)
> -	 */
> -#ifndef MODULE
> -	char *option = NULL;
> -
> -	if (fb_get_options("pm3fb", &option))
> -		return -ENODEV;

The cleanup is good, but we should still leave the above with
the second parameter as NULL so the driver can also listen to
global options, such as video=pm3fb:off.

I'll fix this up. Thanks.

Krzysztof,

I think this patch is okay.  If you need to add an option parser
for your driver, you can always add this in the future.

Tony

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