On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:10 +0300, Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
wrote: 
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 03:58:46PM +0200, ext Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 16:16 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: 
> > > fbdevhw already relies in libpciaccess, which in turn relies in sysfs to 
> > > probe
> > > devices. If sysfs is reporting wrong values then we're doomed anyway. So 
> > > we
> > > totally rely on sys and this second suspicious way to match fb <-> PCI 
> > > becomes
> > > superfluous.
> > 
> > So the /sys/bus/pci/devices/%04x:%02x:%02x.%d/graphics/fb%d /
> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/%04x:%02x:%02x.%d/graphics:fb%d files were already
> > there in the minimum Linux kernel version required by libpciaccess?
> 
> I don't know the answer, but why you care?

Because otherwise this change will break at least the fbdev driver on
some systems.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer
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