[Lcd4linux-devel] Driver for dpf-ax

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Hi,

I'm a maintainer of dpf-ax, the tools for hacking AX206 Digital Photo Frames.

I've noticed some problems with the current DPF-driver for lcd4linux:

1. Does not compile with recent dpf-ax library.
2. Property "Backlight" supports only on/off instead of values from 0..7.
3. No support for the "Orientation" property.
4. *VERY* cumbersome to get this to work because you have to get & compile dpf-ax's library separately, rename the header file *AND* copy the library/header to a special location (which is documented nowhere.) :-(

There is a patch by Ondrej Wisniewski on the mailing list that fixes point 1 and 2. Thx Ondrej!
Point 3 is also fixed by Ondrej - but I dropped support for this property in the latest dpf-ax version. :-o

I'm currently thinking about re-writing the driver for lcd4linux to fix all these issues.
To address point 1 and 4 I would like to include all dpf-access routines into the driver. So no more need for external headers/libraries - and no more problems. :-)
Point 2 ist already fixed by Ondrej and point 3 I'm planning to re-implement in software.
It would be the cleanest approach to split the driver in 3 files, e.g.: drv_dpf.c, drv_dpflib.c and drv_dpflib.h.

So my question:
Is it possible / allowed / welcome for a driver to have more than one file? As far as I can see all current drivers have only one file (drv_XXXX.c.)

Greetings
superelchi