Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdv/fbcon pending problems

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 03:38:54 EST


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Otto Solares wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:53:14AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> - bus_id for each fbdev, so from userland became posible to identify
> to which card we are controlling. I know it should be exported via
> sysfs but an ioctl should be really handy as when you program for
> fbdev anyway you have to use ioctl's, just to get the bus_is will
> be a pain use sysfs.

But the goal is to replace these ioctl()s by sysfs, too, isn't it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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