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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fbdev: Statically link the framebuffer notification functions
On 7/11/06, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
> The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer
> of blanking events. However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function
> independently from the framebuffer layer. But in order to enable to
> the lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled also,
> effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code. Besides, the dependency
> is introducing a lot of compilation problems.

This code is effectively rebuilding a fb specific version of
inter_module_get/put., something that was removed earlier.

Another solution would be to put this code into a tiny module and then
have everyone depend on it.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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