[PATCH 2/2] ARM i.MX23/28: Add framebuffer device support

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Fri Feb 18 04:36:23 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:26:50AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:17:18PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > > I understand that "mxsfb" was picked up for the device name to
> > > > reflect the driver name.  But since this is the device under mach- mxs
> > > > folder, can we simply call it "fb" just like the way you name fb.h?
> > > > 
> > > > In this way, we have all mxs platform device naming schema aligned,
> > > > auart, duart, dma, fb, fec, flexcan, mmc ...
> > > 
> > > I see it the other way round. mach/fb.h is too generic, I would prefer
> > > mach/mxsfb.h to be able to add support for a different framebuffer
> > > later. So I better change fb.h to mxsfb.h.
> > > 
> > I'm fine with either way, but just wondering what kind of fb later
> > it is and its naming, relatively to mxsfs.
> 
> IPU...?
> 
AFAICT, this is something that never going to happen.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn




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