linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: expose boot VGA device via sysfs.

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Message-ID: <20090319191213.0d52c52d@hobbes.lan>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:12:13 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: expose boot VGA device via sysfs.

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:57:05 +0000 (GMT)
Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> wrote:

> 
> X really would like to know which VGA device was considered the boot
> device by the system. The x86 PCI fixups have support for discovering
> this but we provide no way to expose it to userspace.
> 
> This adds a sysfs file per VGA class device which has the value 0 for
> non the boot device or unknown, and 1 if the VGA device is the boot
> device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>

Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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