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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] gxfb: Replace FBSIZE config option with a kernel argument
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:19:50 -0500 Andres Salomon wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:58:39 -0500
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:31:05 -0800
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:10:45 -0500
> > > Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > @@ -425,7 +424,10 @@ static int __init gxfb_setup(char *options)
> > > > if (!*opt)
> > > > continue;
> > > >
> > > > - mode_option = opt;
> > > > + if (!strncmp(opt, "fbsize:", 7))
> > > > + fbsize = simple_strtoul(opt+7, NULL, 0);
> > > > + else
> > > > + mode_option = opt;
> > > > }
> > >
> > > The above shouldn't be necessary.
> >
> > It looks like that's done in other drivers in case MODULE isn't defined. I'm
> > assuming this is historical at this point, and manual options parsing can
> > be removed from all fb drivers at this point, or is there another reason
> > why manual parsing would be necessary?
> >
>
> Could I get an answer from the fbdevel folks about this? It looks like
> the fb_get_options stuff is there for backwards compatibility.
> gxfb.fbsize=16777216 (for example) works regardless of whether or not
> CONFIG_MODULES is set.
>

It would be very nice to get Mr. Daplas back.

> >
> > >
> > > And it should have been documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
> >
> > Yeah, I wasn't actually sure about that; I did check for other fb drivers
> > documenting stuff in kernel-parameters.txt, and didn't see it. It looks
> > like they instead document stuff in Documentation/fb/. Which is preferred?
> >
>
> I'd also like an opinion on this.

My opinion (only) is that any subsystem that has lots of doc and/or
kernel parameters should put that info into Documentation/<subdir>/,
so adding to Documentation/fb/ is good. (sound is another big
candidate for this. All of those "snd-xyz=" entries in
kernel-parameters.txt don't actually help other than to say that there
are some user-settable parameters that someone has to go search for.)
We should probably also extend this entry in kernel-parameters.txt:

video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.

to point to Documentation/fb/ for all frame buffer docs.

---
~Randy


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