[PATCH 3/6] xfree86: fbdevhw: remove superfluous pci pointer from probe function

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 26 11:14:20 PDT 2010


> From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:37:31 +0300
> 
> The only drivers using this function are fbdev and glint. Though those driver
> initialize with NULL argument. Other drivers do some kind of implicit probe
> using fbdevHWInit instead.

I can see why fbdev needs this, but what makes glint so special that
it does things different than all the other drivers?

> API break.

So after this, glint is broken?  If you think this API change is so
important, I think you should take the trouble to fix the driver
first, or at least at the same time.


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