From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
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To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/video/: misc cleanups
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:46:47 +0800
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       Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Monday 22 November 2004 17:43, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 November 2004 23:58, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > The patch below does the following cleanups under drivers/video/ :
> > > > - make some needlessly global code static
> > > > - the following was needlessly EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed:
> > > >   - fbcon.c: fb_con
> > > >   - mdacon.c: fb_blank
> > > >   - fbmon.c: get_EDID_from_firmware (completely unused)
> > > >...
> > >
> > > I forgot one thing:
> > >
> > > Please review my global_mode_option removal in modedb.c .
> > >
> > > It was always NULL and I'd say the only usage was wrong (although it
> > > had no practical effect).
> >
> > Should be ok to remove it.  I only see fb_find_mode using it, and as
> > you've concluded, usage is not very clear.
> >
> > BTW: The global_mode_option, previously, is filled up when no driver is
> > specified in the boot options, such as "video=1024x768@60".  But this was
> > removed during the fb initialization cleanup.
>
> What a pity... It allowed people to not have to care about the name of
> their graphics driver(s)...
>

The absence of the driver name array will make it a bit difficult to differentiate
between options passed specifically to drivers vs the global mode option.

We can bring global_mode_option back. Since driver names always have a
terminating "fb", we can search for the "fb:" substring and if not found,
then it's a global_mode_option.

Is that okay?

Tony


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