From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] drm/kms: don't export drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:05:19 +0000 Message-ID: <20140123100519.GU15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1390467164-951-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <1390467164-951-20-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20140123100028.GQ9772@phenom.ffwll.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pandora.arm.linux.org.uk (gw-1.arm.linux.org.uk [78.32.30.217]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12452FB849 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 02:05:28 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140123100028.GQ9772@phenom.ffwll.local> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Daniel Vetter Cc: Daniel Vetter , Greg Kroah-Hartman , DRI Development List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:42:02AM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > > If there's ever hardware that truly supports sub-device hotplugging, > > we can support that by adding a DRM-ClientCap like 3D modes. But as I > > understand, the current hardware is still a single piece of hardware > > which just might get probed via different buses and thus is not an > > atomic entity. So the device is still hotplugged as a whole, we just > > don't get the events through a single path. > > Yeah, if we ever want to allow hotplugging after driver setup that's > massive work to do it right. Which is why I want to plug this hole here > before someone sneaks in for real ;-) David did say at the kernel summit that he's not interested at all in hotplugging the components of a DRM system, and his statement appeared to be very clear in that regard that it was never going to happen. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: 5.8Mbps down 500kbps up. Estimation in database were 13.1 to 19Mbit for a good line, about 7.5+ for a bad. Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit".