[Libdlo] udlfb 0.4.0

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Nov 11 19:04:34 PST 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:21:39AM -0800, Bernie Thompson wrote:
> This is a new release of the DisplayLink kernel framebuffer driver, udlfb.
> 
> udlfb was accepted into the Linux kernel staging tree of 2.6 a few
> months ago. It needs some work to add key features and get it promoted
> out of the staging tree. Roberto De Iorio, the author of udlfb and
> displaylink-mod, is focusing on X server work, and is happy with this
> work happening in parallel to move udlfb forward.
> 
> This first release intentionally adds no fundamentally new features.
> It only gets udlfb up to sync with the displaylink-mod branch (up to
> Roberto?s last 0.3 release in July 2009) that has been in use the past
> few months. With this update, displaylink-mod users should be able to
> switch to this version of udlfb transparently.
> 
> Bug reports are very welcome, especially regressions or problems that
> would stand in the way of moving this driver forward out of staging
> (comments on the post are fine for bug reports).  This is a
> development release, but it should be stable for daily use.
> 
> New in 0.4.0 (since 0.2.3 currently in the Linux kernel staging tree)

Um, care to send me a patch to update the in-kernel version?  Doing this
outside of the tree only causes maintance nightmares :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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