From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so1205631uge for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:47:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45a44e480702211547h255c86dax82680c8f20df6d07@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:47:52 -0500 From: "Jaya Kumar" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev, mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver In-Reply-To: <1172101416.4217.19.camel@daplas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070217104215.GB25512@localhost> <1171715652.5186.7.camel@lappy> <45a44e480702170525n9a15fafpb370cb93f1c1fcba@mail.gmail.com> <20070217135922.GA15373@linux-sh.org> <45a44e480702180331t7e76c396j1a9861f689d4186b@mail.gmail.com> <20070218235741.GA22298@linux-sh.org> <45a44e480702192013s7d49d05ai31e576f0448a485e@mail.gmail.com> <45a44e480702210855t344441c1xf8e081c82ece4e63@mail.gmail.com> <1172101416.4217.19.camel@daplas> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: James Simmons , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Development , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Mundt , Geert Uytterhoeven List-ID: On 2/21/07, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote: > > > > You are right. I will need that. I could put that into struct > > fb_deferred_io. So drivers would setup like: > > > > Is it also possible to let the drivers do the 'deferred_io' > themselves? Say, a driver that would flush the dirty pages on > every VBLANK interrupt. Yes, I think so. The deferred_io callback that the driver would get would be to provide them with the dirty pages list. Then, they could use that to handle the on-vblank work. > > When the driver calls register_framebuffer and unregister_framebuffer, > > I can then do the init and destruction of the other members of that > > struct. Does this sound okay? > > It would be better if separate registering functions are created for > this functionality (ie deferred_io_register/unregister). > Ok. Will do it that way. Thanks, jaya -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org