Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968692AbWLEUk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:40:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968693AbWLEUk4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:40:56 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:55026 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968692AbWLEUky (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:40:54 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K4VbruDAmbwyygy9bFCiNzaLyPLQR0ttAS2u8xM911n856sc9NrQ2w8SPMiT1xPZjx+Hbv6YSZkX0+U9Ojk3ZIWofyb1pYmbtFtBXbmJaJNzXBSfaU/SGp5AQS7CvIp0/vvsS+cRjUFi+0blMlvbnEcI0xVSgLa+11TigDPZP/4= Message-ID: <653402b90612051240s7beeda1hd9c1c6f9b5d6721d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:40:52 +0100 From: "Miguel Ojeda" To: "James Simmons" Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Yu Luming" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061204204024.2401148d.akpm@osdl.org> <20061205100140.24888a96.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2041 Lines: 50 On 12/5/06, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Right back from exams and with lots of spare time :) I got your patch, so I'm going to try your patch and exchange all the "platform_device_*" stuff with your display class and move ks0108, cfag12864b and cfag12864bfb to drivers/video/display/ -- Miguel Ojeda http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/index.htm - 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/