From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: the patch set to weaken the dependency between ACPI video driver and i915 driver Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:35:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20090414193538.GB8304@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1239678275.5564.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:44859 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754408AbZDNTfo (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:35:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1239678275.5564.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: yakui_zhao Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:04:35AM +0800, yakui_zhao wrote: > Patch 2/2: weaken the tight dependency between the ACPI video driver and i915 driver > Now there exists the tight dependency between the ACPI video driver and i915 driver. > If the I915 driver is compiled as built-in module and the acpi video is compiled as module, > it will fail in the kernel compilation. > At the same time the acpi video driver must be loaded in order to load > the I915 driver. It is very hack. No, it's *correct*. In a modesetting world, i915 requires ACPI. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org