Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269698AbUIRXh1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:37:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269682AbUIRXex (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:34:53 -0400 Received: from [63.227.221.253] ([63.227.221.253]:15237 "EHLO home.keithp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269690AbUIRXeb (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:34:31 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 11/28/2001 with nmh-1.1 To: Jon Smirl Cc: Mike Mestnik , dri-devel , lkml , Keith Packard Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes From: Keith Packard In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:12:17 EDT." <9e47339104091815125ef78738@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_80760304P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:33:54 -0700 Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 33 --==_Exmh_80760304P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Around 18 o'clock on Sep 18, Jon Smirl wrote: > The sysfs scheme has the advantage that there is no special user > command required. You just use echo or cp to set the mode. But it makes it difficult to associate the sysfs entry with the particular session. Seems like permitting multiple opens of /dev/fb0 with mode setting done on that file pointer will be easier to keep straight --==_Exmh_80760304P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1 11/28/2001 iD8DBQFBTMXiQp8BWwlsTdMRAtWYAJ4+kF5fwJeEMohpFuApbpYeHErj7gCfZJMm LVLtoJ/py7g03vVZOOPGyZo= =t/TL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_80760304P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/