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Message-ID: <20080721222428.20395240@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:24:28 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@...ssdisk.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:37:35 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:12:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > do you have a list of which ones don't ? > > > > > > I don't, but perhaps Matthew does. > > > > Perhaps Matthew would care to file X bugs against those that get it wrong > > then. > > It's hardly limited to X. Fonts are set through the kernel - why > shouldn't it be the kernel's responsibility to ensure that they're > restored? Why should it be the kernels problem to clean up after buggy X drivers ? There are cases the kernel probably should handle font restore: the obvious one being suspend/resume. X is not one of those cases and wasting memory on fonts on embedded boxes that will never be seen anyway seems silly. For suspend/resume it might be far better to do it in user space, although I'm not sure what the interface would look like. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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