From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267507AbUHPK3v (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:29:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267514AbUHPK3v (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:29:51 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:61628 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267507AbUHPK3t (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:29:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:29:48 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20040816105014.A9367@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20040815133432.A1750@infradead.org> <20040816101732.A9150@infradead.org> <20040816105014.A9367@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > no, now you're acting like an even more broken driver, preventing a fbdev > driver to be loaded afterwards and doing all kinds of funny things. Please > revert to the old method until you have a common pci_driver for fbdev and dri. > the options we have are 1) move the DRM to be a real PCI driver now - stop fb from working on same card 2) move the DRM to act like a real PCI driver when fb isn't loaded, when we merge we rip the code out.. the other option is not going to happen unless Linus/Andrew/Alan tell us to go away do it that away and will then unconditionally merge a mega-patch when I'm finished - you can't have it both ways we fix things step-by-step or we leave it as is and nobody fixes it, so Christoph I repsect your opinion but unless you care about this enough to do the work on it, the way we are going seems to be the best way to avoid breaking things and I'm leaving the decision on whether to merge this stuff or not to Linus/Andrew - btw in case anyone wants to look the patch is whats at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8-rc4/2.6.8-rc4-mm1/broken-out/bk-drm.patch Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person