Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937625AbWLFU2W (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:28:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937624AbWLFU2W (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:28:22 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:10376 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937619AbWLFU2U (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:28:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:28:30 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: James Simmons Cc: Miguel Ojeda , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list , Luming Yu , Andrew Zabolotny , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org Subject: Re: Display class Message-Id: <20061206122830.1c5fda5b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: References: <653402b90611141426y6db15a3bh8ea59f89c8f1bb39@mail.gmail.com> <20061205171401.fd11160d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 30 On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:10:44 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons wrote: > > > > of Mr. Yu for acpi. Also this class could in time replace the lcd class > > > located in the backlight directory since a lcd is a type of display. > > > The final hope is that the purpose auxdisplay could fall under this > > > catergory. > > > > > > P.S > > > I know the edid parsing would have to be pulled out of the fbdev layer. > > That patch was rought draft for feedback. I applied your comments. This > patch actually works. It includes my backlight fix as well. BTW, this patch version contains trailing whitespace which should be cleaned up: Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 33,158 of drivers/acpi/video.c Warning: trailing whitespace in line 10 of drivers/video/display/Kconfig Warning: trailing whitespace in line 41 of include/linux/display.h Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 49,1053,1084,1133 of drivers/video/Kconfig Warning: trailing whitespace in line 3 of drivers/video/display/Makefile --- ~Randy - 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/