[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/04/29 at 19:37 -0400]
>Note that most displays usually have status cells, when they do have
>them, separate from the main display. So an Alva display with 40 cells
>and 3 status cells doesn't have a 43 cell contiguous display but
>actually a 3 cell displa
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Dave Mielke wrote:
> My plan is to have the driver advertise the display's full width and to behave
> as though there are no status cells. The core would then have an option
> (similar to the BrailleNote driver's statuscells= parameter) which would
> allocate some of the text
I have a plan (see next paragraph) which will resolve your problem in a very
simple way. My problem is that I don't want to implement it until 3.8 is out
as, at this point, I really want to ensure stability. I intend to release 3.8
as soon as Orca and LSR tell me that they're satisfied. I believe L
