Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:43:10 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 |
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:25:58 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > > > > > Does this patch update the fbdev drivers? > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/broken-out/video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > > > Seems not. Should it? > > Yes. Its bizarre.
It is.
> The drivers compile with the wrong method prototype.
No, it doesn't get compiled at all.
CONFIG_FB_ATY128_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all.
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all.
CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all.
So this is all dead code. There is no way to enable any of it within the config system.
> I > updated the fbdev drivers to the new backlight_device_register and it > compiled as expect. There are a few other problems with teh fbdev drivers. > I will send a patch.
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