Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] mode change policy

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

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, James Simmons wrote:
> > > I don't see why it would. You ask for a mode. The monitor can't handle it
> > > so we return -EINVAL. If the mode can be rounded up to something that the
> >                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > monitor can support than we return the var in fb_set_var.
> > 
> > Ah, here you say `rounded up'. In the mail I replied to you (and Petr) were
> > talking about finding suitable color bitfield lengths, allowing rounding down
> > as well.
> 
> So is round down is allowable as well?

No, but it was suggested that just changing the color bitfields to acceptable
values (this can involve rounding up or down) could be acceptable.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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