From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Reding Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/26] drm/exynos: Split manager/display/subdrv Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:10:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20131104101026.GI27445@ulmo.nvidia.com> References: <1381951616-12548-1-git-send-email-seanpaul@chromium.org> <2834877.XsF26J0SyF@flatron> <34583649.XFd5ZiQISl@flatron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1780446489==" Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f49.google.com (mail-bk0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6089131334 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 02:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-bk0-f49.google.com with SMTP id w14so2739328bkz.36 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:10:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org To: Rob Clark Cc: =?utf-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5l?= Marchesin , Sylwester Nawrocki , dri-devel , Laurent Pinchart List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org --===============1780446489== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a7XSrSxqzVsaECgU" Content-Disposition: inline --a7XSrSxqzVsaECgU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:29:55PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Tomasz Figa wrot= e: [...] > > I believe this is a huge step backwards from current kernel design > > standards, which prefer modularity. >=20 > But it makes things behave in the way that userspace expects, which is > more important. Why would userspace care about the modularity of kernel drivers? The only thing that userspace should care about is whether there's a DRM device or not. How the kernel makes that happen should be completely irrelevant to userspace. Thierry --a7XSrSxqzVsaECgU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSd3KSAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhjV8P/1bPmyW1p5OM+0Ri9ffbgB/V XvTjt6EQHlS/96eQDczIrJXvSBxV9LFIgs6FAgL4QTxDDVU2fNANCobJzELh64g2 cFviPsJPyWmr2g6f33py5CoWomoSQf4IO+2TS8srZbOHMv4JDU0G+EZCknQUp1/x WmYAhOql3+tN6QQRQ1//K6GP/fpK+Rg+5UMPRBdW3pOKSyDW4B4BcjzCIHvvB533 13gDHeA6NTKEpyETh/4dC7FGsuKjGlf9S7PeXCraKO0/pQUEjvkzzmTtjgo7iMkb kjleLyCBvqrGss8tYTyWUoSj5ah5DQXFYXxAq6LGpifC03AGZE8F6VFledZt4kjK ss7HRJr87GYtIZ2y3G5S2KWJpZXyaDXcAbxVUsKDurzxhjj7k9TyygpKJ15Iu6hd 6fkd8T0K4tzbgqmp4pDQErpueJmZ5wSvpv7Xk11WxO1zSVMRxw0BxMtBYEsQ6fCW KhzrW1Yss66NnY+3XDAp82hHEOoLtZtxZP9mHeHba8LA0j61C9RY6hNgYjCvVR9/ O8nkzuNM8wcQtV1igmn4kyJ/NIxMSqyRYqM27VEscf3MprvC6RyWCw3YgCLBLWsL I9axASgssUOSgBg7vppNUt5dfonnAO5msdFfhKShRrwzdQ0QAF5kZ8fnBd/W6rby 91N0JQKK6tSjLnmDg5pc =N/E7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a7XSrSxqzVsaECgU-- --===============1780446489== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel --===============1780446489==--