From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] allow console unregistration
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:56:47 -0700
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On Thursday, May 17, 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:32 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Randy just informed me that the patch limits are bigger now, so here
> > are the actual patches.
> >
> > This patch allows for proper console unregistration via the VT layer,
> > and updates the FB layer to use it.  This makes debugging new console
> > drivers much easier, since you can properly clean them up before
> > unloading. Antonio already checked it out (and suggested a tweak for
> > the fbcon side) so I think it's on its way already via the FB tree.
>
> Sorry, I was busy and got sidetracked so I wasn't able to work on this
> for 2 weeks.  Yes, this should work for now, at least for debugging
> purposes. I'll work on refining on fbcon side, hopefully for
> 2.6.22-2.6.23 time frame.

No problem, I don't expect the rest of the code to be ready for awhile... 
This patch should be pretty close (modulo debugging statements and other 
bogons) to what we discussed earlier.  I think the main change that's 
needed is to only unregister the specific console that was registered, 
rather than all of them.

Thanks,
Jesse
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