On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
