Re: newbie needs help with modules

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > > The kernel just uses amifb:vga even if i tell it to use cyberfb...
> > >
> > > Looking at drivers/video/fbmem.c, you should try video=cyber:...
> > 
> > all of them should be changed to xxxxfb rather than a mixed bunch.
> > standardisation makes sense. What will a name-change mess up?
> 
> AFAIR the idea in 2.4 is to remove the trailing fb from all of them, but let's
> wait for Geert's comment on this.

I'm a bit reluctant to change them, since such changes cause a lot of bug
reports from people used to the old syntax.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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