Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968603AbWLES0A (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:26:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968605AbWLES0A (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:26:00 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41802 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968603AbWLES0A (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:26:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:25:58 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yu Luming , Miguel Ojeda Sandonis Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 In-Reply-To: <20061205100140.24888a96.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20061204204024.2401148d.akpm@osdl.org> <20061205100140.24888a96.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 38 > > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > > > Does this patch update the fbdev drivers? > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/broken-out/video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > Seems not. Should it? Yes. Its bizarre. The drivers compile with the wrong method prototype. I updated the fbdev drivers to the new backlight_device_register and it compiled as expect. There are a few other problems with teh fbdev drivers. I will send a patch. > > > add-display-output-class-support.patch > > > add-output-class-document.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-3.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-3-Kconfig-fix.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-update-4.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-update-5.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-update6.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-update-7.patch > > > drivers-add-lcd-support-update-8.patch > > > > Ug. We have alot of interfaces attempting to do the same thing. We also > > have the lcd class_dev in drivers/video/backlight. I did some work which I > > will post to interested parties in the hopes of getting one interface to > > make everyone happy. > > Well can you please work out what we should do with Miguel? I sent a email already. The details will be hammered out. - 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/