Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752866AbYCJIRI (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:17:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751232AbYCJIQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:16:43 -0400 Received: from winston.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.75]:37352 "EHLO winston.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751125AbYCJIQm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:16:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:16:34 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net cc: Ondrej Zajicek , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/4] gxfb: Replace FBSIZE config option with a kernel argument In-Reply-To: <20080309195754.6d972be7@ephemeral> Message-ID: References: <20080223011045.48e6cb8e@ephemeral> <20080227163105.e1b96023.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080227195839.1e86074e@ephemeral> <20080308201950.28f6eae8@ephemeral> <20080309220025.GD9971@localhost.localdomain> <20080309195754.6d972be7@ephemeral> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1715 Lines: 42 On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:00:25 +0100 > Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:19:50PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > assuming this is historical at this point, and manual options parsing can > > > > be removed from all fb drivers at this point, or is there another reason > > > > why manual parsing would be necessary? > > > > > > > > > > Could I get an answer from the fbdevel folks about this? It looks like > > > the fb_get_options stuff is there for backwards compatibility. > > > > I think so. I used fb_get_options() in arkfb and vt8623fb for mode option > > only. Universal notation module.option=value is much nicer than manual > > options parsing. This `module.option=value' is a quite recent introduction? I first saw it mentioned earlier this year... > If that is indeed the case, here's a patch that might be useful. I have > no idea what kind of timeframe would be proposed for removing > fb_get_options (or if it's even desirable to remove it at all given that > people are likely still using video=$foo syntax). Probably it's way too early for that... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/