Re: [PATCH] fb.h cleanup

Erik Andersen (andersen@xmission.com)
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:28:02 -0700

On Mon Jan 10, 2000 at 09:55:32AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, James A Simmons wrote:
> > Please test this patch. It's against a pre-2.3.39-2. Once you are happy
> > with it Geert can you send it to linus. Thank you.
>
> > -#define FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO 0x4600
> > +#define FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO _IOWR(FB_IOC_MAGIC, 0, struct fb_var_screeninfo)
>
> Are these backwards compatible on all platforms?
>

Does it matter? From user space you already have to do a

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,0)
foo
#else
bar
#endif

since things like struct fb_var_screeninfo already
had its internals changed.

-Erik

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