[PATCH] VT binding: Update fbcon to support binding

The control for binding/unbinding is moved from fbcon to the console layer.
Thus the fbcon sysfs attributes, attach and detach, are also gone.

    1. Add a notifier event that tells fbcon if a framebuffer driver has been
       unregistered.  If no registered driver remains, fbcon will unregister
       itself from the console layer.

    2. Replaced calls to give_up_console() with unregister_con_driver().

    3. Still use take_over_console() instead of register_con_driver() to
       maintain compatibility

    4. Respect the parameter first_fb_vc and last_fb_vc instead of using 0 and
       MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1. These parameters are settable by the user.

    5. When fbcon is completely unbound from the console layer, fbcon will
       also release (iow, decrement module reference counts to zero) all fbdev
       drivers. In other words, a bind or unbind request from the console layer
       will propagate down to the framebuffer drivers.

    6. If fbcon is not bound to the console, it will ignore all notifier
       events (except driver registration and unregistration) and all sysfs
       requests.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
index c64f25255286..07a08e92bc73 100644
--- a/include/linux/fb.h
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h
@@ -504,17 +504,19 @@ struct fb_cursor_user {
 #define FB_EVENT_MODE_DELETE            0x04
 /*      A driver registered itself */
 #define FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED          0x05
+/*      A driver unregistered itself */
+#define FB_EVENT_FB_UNREGISTERED        0x06
 /*      CONSOLE-SPECIFIC: get console to framebuffer mapping */
-#define FB_EVENT_GET_CONSOLE_MAP        0x06
+#define FB_EVENT_GET_CONSOLE_MAP        0x07
 /*      CONSOLE-SPECIFIC: set console to framebuffer mapping */
-#define FB_EVENT_SET_CONSOLE_MAP        0x07
+#define FB_EVENT_SET_CONSOLE_MAP        0x08
 /*      A display blank is requested       */
-#define FB_EVENT_BLANK                  0x08
+#define FB_EVENT_BLANK                  0x09
 /*      Private modelist is to be replaced */
-#define FB_EVENT_NEW_MODELIST           0x09
+#define FB_EVENT_NEW_MODELIST           0x0A
 /*      The resolution of the passed in fb_info about to change and
         all vc's should be changed         */
-#define FB_EVENT_MODE_CHANGE_ALL        0x0A
+#define FB_EVENT_MODE_CHANGE_ALL        0x0B
 
 struct fb_event {
         struct fb_info *info;