Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932809AbWJINdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:33:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932810AbWJINdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:33:23 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:58789 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932809AbWJINdW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:33:22 -0400 Message-ID: <452A4FA1.10701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:33:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060721 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Ojeda CC: Pavel Machek , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1 V9] drivers: add LCD support References: <20061006002950.49b25189.maxextreme@gmail.com> <20061008182438.GA4033@ucw.cz> <653402b90610081137g7885fc85h54e5e94de682a246@mail.gmail.com> <20061008191217.GA3788@elf.ucw.cz> <653402b90610081312m32fcf7ecx9929ae9dc4768c17@mail.gmail.com> <20061008211550.GE4152@elf.ucw.cz> <653402b90610081436w34d692ecv2dd9801c451ab490@mail.gmail.com> <20061008220722.GG4152@elf.ucw.cz> <653402b90610081545n51cdfbcej469990279f6d018c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <653402b90610081545n51cdfbcej469990279f6d018c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1517 Lines: 38 On 10/9/2006 12:45 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On 10/9/06, Pavel Machek wrote: ... >> What is advantage of /dev/cfag12864bX over /dev/fbcfag12864b ? >> >> (And I guess you should invent better name... /dev/fbaux0?) If the driver exposes sensible information, udev can give names. ... >> I do not think it is suitable for -rc at this point, and it does not >> have chance before 2.6.20-rc1, anyway. > > No? Why not? Time is not a problem, I would want to know why are you > saying that. Linus currently has a rule for merge windows; akpm certainly doesn't. On 10/8/2006 11:36 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: ||| I have no problem coding the fbcfag12864b module in my free time; ||| but I prefer to remain the other modules as they are now and add ||| the fbcfag12864b later in time: I'm waiting them to get into one ||| of the -rcs without more radical changes. An interface which promises to be future-proof, especially if it is an interface to userspace, is of course a requirement to get into mainline in the first place. (However I don't know enough about the interfaces discussed here nor about your requirements to say anything specifically about your interface or the one Pavel suggested.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/