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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:40:58 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir>
Cc: fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fbdev: add fillrect and copyarea ioctls
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:47:09 +0430
Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any reason for not adding these ioctls to fbdev?  I searched
> the net and couldn't any.  Anyway, these patches simply implement
> those ioctls.
> 

can we turn this around, is there a reason to add them?
or in other words, how / where would these be used ?

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