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: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:54:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20090415165409.GB27807@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1239678275.5564.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090414193538.GB8304@srcf.ucam.org> <1239757961.5564.109.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090415045359.GA15437@srcf.ucam.org> <9F0C1DB20AFA954FA1DA05309350433D5B2E7517@pdsmsx503.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46836 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751967AbZDOQyR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:54:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9F0C1DB20AFA954FA1DA05309350433D5B2E7517@pdsmsx503.ccr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Zhao, Yakui" Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:21:16PM +0800, Zhao, Yakui wrote: > Will you please explain more clearly why ACPI video driver is required when KMS is used? Sorry, I should have been clearer. ACPI is required if the hardware supports opregion. Now that I've thought about it more, I think the patch I've just sent should remove the need to change the #ifdefs in the video driver. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org