Re: [PATCH] Add sysfs support for fbdefio delay

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 19:20:47 EST


On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:47:34 -0700
"Rick L. Vinyard Jr." <rvinyard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch adds support for examining and modifying the fbdefio delay
> parameter through sysfs. It also adds two driver definable minimum
> and maximum bounds.
>
> The default behavior is to not permit modifications if delay_max is 0,
> thus preventing modification of the delay if the driver does not
> explicitly permit modification.

Why is this being added? You have some device which doesn't function
properly without this change?

If so, that's pretty critical changelog info - we presently have no
reason to merge the patch!

Thanks.

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