Re: Boot Console on LCD (fbcon) second try...

From: Andrew Zabolotny <zap.a.t.homelink.ru>
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 00:33:28 EST

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:31:05 +0300
Andrew Zabolotny <zap@homelink.ru> wrote:

> Next observation is that you must remove explicitly calling
> mq1100_fb_init() since this function is automatically called by kernel
> at module init time (no matter if it's statically or dynamically
> linked). This is simply wrong, since it's marked as __init and goes away
> as soon as the module gets unloaded.
Correction: as soon as modprobe quits, or (in the statically linked case) as
soon as kernel says "freeing init memory".

> Also it removes the need for the initialization lock.
For preventing double initialization, that is.

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Greetings,
   Andrew
Received on Wed Mar 03 05:33:29 2004

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