The drivers don't have priority though. You call set_par, and then
wander off into the internals of fbgen.c to set can_soft_blank youself,
without giving the drivers any look-in to set that correctly.
> > There is also the argument about wanting soft blanking, but hardware power
> > saving.
>
> Hm. True unfortunely the fbdev layer lacks handling details like that. The
> console system is even worse. This is why a single flag like
> can_soft_blank can actually be a limitation.
Well, it needs to be fixed. We've lost functionality that was present in
2.4, and therefore I call it a bug.
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