From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756287Ab2IFOdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:33:02 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.216.53]:41976 "EHLO mail-qa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756178Ab2IFOdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:33:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5048A6B6.40307@canonical.com> References: <5048A6B6.40307@canonical.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:33:00 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: drm/vmwgfx: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE so vmwgfx loads at boot From: Jakob Bornecrantz To: Tim Gardner Cc: airlied@gmail.com, airlied@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: > Dave - I couldn't find this patch in your git repo at > git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux in the drm-next or drm-fixes > branches. > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1379071/ > > It appears to fix a real problem for Mac users - > http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039157. See > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/linux/+bug/1039157/comments/31 > for confirmation. Thanks, I was going to point out that Dave had already fix this, but it seem you already knew about that. There is a companion patch along side with the one mentioned. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027124.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027125.html I recommend applying both and turning the config to yes (as long as you have the kms enabled xf86-video-vmware driver installed). I RB:ed them both along with the dumb ioctl interface here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027139.html > > I think it should also be 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org'. It applies as > far back as 2.6.32 with minor context differences. > > rtg Its probably safe, but it could mean that the driver gets loaded on distros, where in the past it hasn't tho that should be safe. Cheers, Jakob.