from modes and modules

Hi,

After playing around with the framebuffer driver of an Epia V board 
(tridentfb), there are several questions about framebuffer drivers at 
all. I would be lucky, if I could get some comments from the 
developers.

As I have loaded a framebuffer as module with insmod I discovered, that 
only the default mode is possible, because fb_find_mode from modedb.c 
is replaced by an inline function from <linux/fb.h> ;-)  After that I'm 
willing to do some additional docs to the kernel sources .....
The documented modes are only available, when the driver is compiled 
into the kernel...

If I change the mode on a virtual console (using fbset), and then try to 
remove the driver, I will get a kernel freeze (no oops!). After 
thinking about it, I don't know if it's possible at all to remove a 
framebuffer module, because it may be used by the console driver. 
Unfortunately there is no MOD_INC_USE_COUNT to make this safe.

So my question is: How can I safely insert and remove a framebuffer 
driver module ?

TIA,

Franz






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