Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265106AbUITAIx (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265127AbUITAIx (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:08:53 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:33724 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265106AbUITAIv (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:08:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jon Smirl Cc: Mike Mestnik , dri-devel , lkml In-Reply-To: <9e473391040919091252baeb1a@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e47339104091811431fb44254@mail.gmail.com> <20040918195807.18874.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> <9e47339104091815125ef78738@mail.gmail.com> <1095569317.6670.26.camel@gaston> <9e473391040919091252baeb1a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1095638860.18428.21.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:07:40 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 02:12, Jon Smirl wrote: > The radeon driver has that extra code for intializing older DDC. That > can be handled generically in the I2C layer by writing a ddc driver > that is a superset of the eeprom driver. I'd rather get that code > into a generic driver than repeat it in every video card driver. I'm not a fan of this solution as you know... oh well... and there's all that code to detect non-DDC capable monitors as well, which won't go through /sys/*/i2c... But do as you like, I don't have time to work on it so I'll shut up. Ben. - 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/