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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Bring in dynamic videomode selection at runtime
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:08:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011151108.34285.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101101141635.GY6017@pengutronix.de>

Hi Sascha,

Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [...]
> > +
> > +static int framebuffer_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	return register_driver(&fb_driver);
> > +}
> > +
> > +device_initcall(framebuffer_init);
> > +
> > +struct device_d *register_framebuffer(struct fb_host *host, void *base,
> > unsigned size) +{
>
> Why are base and size passed to register_framebuffer? The framebuffer
> core should not be interested in this at this point.

Intended for convenience only.

> > +	struct device_d *fb_dev;
> > +	int rc;
> > +
> > +	fb_dev = xzalloc(sizeof(struct device_d));
>
> Why is the device not a member of fb_info (or now fb_host) anymore like
> it used to be? There was no malloc necessary for that.

Glue things from different frameworks together is IMHO a bad idea. But as I 
stated in another mail, I will recombine them.

jbe

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26 11:31 [PATCHv2] Add dynamic video initialization to barebox Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 01/12] Separate framebuffer platformdata and the videomode Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 02/12] Add more flags for sync control Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 03/12] Bring in dynamic videomode selection at runtime Juergen Beisert
2010-11-01 13:47   ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-15 10:04     ` Juergen Beisert
2010-11-17  8:27       ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-01 14:16   ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-15 10:08     ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 04/12] Remove the old videomode functions Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 05/12] Add verbose framebuffer device info Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 06/12] Adapt the existing imx fb driver to support runtime videomode selection Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 07/12] Adapt the existing imx-ipu " Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 08/12] Add a video driver for S3C2440 bases platforms Juergen Beisert
2010-11-01 14:41   ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-15 11:35     ` Juergen Beisert
2010-11-17  8:36       ` Sascha Hauer
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 09/12] STM378x: Add video driver for this platform Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 10/12] Remove variable size restrictions Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 11/12] Add doxygen documentation to the framebfuffer code Juergen Beisert
2010-10-26 11:31 ` [PATCH 12/12] Provide more driver specific data in a videomode Juergen Beisert
2010-11-01 13:19 ` [PATCHv2] Add dynamic video initialization to barebox Sascha Hauer
2010-11-01 13:29   ` Eric Bénard
2010-11-01 14:18     ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-15  9:57   ` Juergen Beisert
2010-11-15 10:25     ` Belisko Marek
2010-11-17  8:44       ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-18  8:18         ` Belisko Marek
2010-11-18 10:09           ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-17  8:43     ` Sascha Hauer

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