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Subject: Re: FBdev updates.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:58, James Simmons wrote:
> > (3) persuade me that I want to write matroxcon and forget about fbcon at all, or
> 
> This is the best solution. 

And then we will have sbuscon as well, thus two places where
putcs() is necessary.

I don't understand, but I do hope that at some point it will be
realized that maybe allowing fbcon to generically handle putcs()
hardware is beneficial.

I can dream. :-)