Re: [BK PATCHS] fbdev updates.

[Russell King]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:27:59AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> Yes the drivers should always have priority. The other stuff is there
> only if the drivers have no power management of any kind. I leave it up to
> the driver write to implement a fb_blank function that handles different
> cases.

The drivers don't have priority though.  You call set_par, and then
wander off into the internals of fbgen.c to set can_soft_blank youself,
without giving the drivers any look-in to set that correctly.

> > There is also the argument about wanting soft blanking, but hardware power
> > saving.
> 
> Hm. True unfortunely the fbdev layer lacks handling details like that. The
> console system is even worse. This is why a single flag like
> can_soft_blank can actually be a limitation.

Well, it needs to be fixed.  We've lost functionality that was present in
2.4, and therefore I call it a bug.

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