Re: Regarding compat_autoconf.h generation

[Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>]

On 10/27/2012 04:25 PM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the nouveau DRM driver there is a CONFIG_NOUVEAU_DEBUG which has to
> be an integer between 0 and 7 with the default as 3.
> Currently gen-compat-autoconf.sh defines this as a string by default:
>
>             *) # Assume string
>   61                 # XXX: add better checks to make sure what was on
>   62                 # the right was indeed a string
>   63                 echo "#ifndef $VAR"
>   64                 echo "#define $VAR \"$VALUE\""
>   65                 echo "#endif /* $VAR */ "
>   66                 ;;
>
> Is it OK to modify the script to allow defining integers? Also, it
> seems that there is no difference with =m and =y:
>
>                y)
>   51                 echo "#ifndef $VAR"
>   52                 echo "#define $VAR 1"
>   53                 echo "#endif /* $VAR */ "
>   54                 ;;
>   55         m)
>   56                 echo "#ifndef $VAR"
>   57                 echo "#define $VAR 1"
>   58                 echo "#endif /* $VAR */ "
>   59                 ;;
>
> How come this doesn't break things? Both =y and =m exist in config.mk.
>
> Thanks!
>

Hi,

are you working o making nouveau work with compat-drivers? I just 
noticed that i915 is only activated driver and I have some problems with 
my nvidia card running nouveau and wanted to try out a new version.

Hauke