Re: sysdev_class use from DRM

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:55:20PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/30/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > Don't tell me to merge DRM/fbdev, that fight has been going on for two
> > > years now.
> > 
> > Well, that's the only real way to fix this.  A simple single driver that
> > handles the pci registering and doles out the resources and callbacks to
> > the different DRM or fbdev driver is the way to go.  I thought you all
> > were working on this a year ago...
> 
> Merging fbdev/DRM has a lot in common with removing devfs from the
> kernel. There are numerous, vocal defenders of their rights to do
> things the way they want to.

And like devfs, those people are wrong.

Seriously, they are, and need to get over it...

> There are also major defenders of the right to hit a magic key (VT
> swap) and have a whole other set of device drivers take over the
> hardware. Every time I think a merge is going to happen somebody new
> shows up and it all falls apart.

Why wouldn't having a "control the pci device" module not allow you to
do this?

> The last round was that the fbdev drivers aren't well tested on the
> x86 (they are on other architectures). My response was, let's get some
> bug reports and fix the problems if there are any. Other people want
> to create yet a third set of drivers which avoids use of the existing
> fbdev ones.

Bah, this sucks.

Last kernel summit I thought this was all hashed out.  I guess the
people not there didn't agree...

Hey, how about at KS/OLS we (anyone who cares about this) sit down and
hash it all out and produce code that does this?  With a working patch,
it should be simple to get it into the tree and then everyone can move
on.

I don't want to see any silly workarounds like what you are being forced
to do to happen.

thanks,

greg k-h


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