[PATCH 31/45] tty: vt: use VESA blanking constants
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 18 08:54:36 UTC 2024
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 18.01.24 um 09:32 schrieb Jiri Slaby:
> > On 18. 01. 24, 9:30, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Am 18.01.24 um 08:57 schrieb Jiri Slaby (SUSE):
> > > > There are VESA blanking constants defined in console.h already. So use
> > > > them in the console code instead of constant values.
> > >
> > > These constants also exist in include/uapi/linux/fb.h. It would be
> > > nice to find a common header where they can be shared.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > see 32/45.
> >
> > I actually don't know how to fix that nicely while keeping uapi happy.
>
> Is it hard to get a new UAPI header accepted (honest question)?
No.
> There are a few things I'd like to split off from fbdev. But that
> would require UAPI headers.
That's fine, create them, but you can't just delete an existing .h file
as that will usually break things.
thanks,
greg k-h
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