From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: the patch set to weaken the dependency between ACPI video driver and i915 driver Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:23:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20090430132326.127e9fb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1239678275.5564.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090415205656.GA32509@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45056 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762016AbZD3U3X (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:29:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, yakui.zhao@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, David John , We La (cc dri-devel) On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:56:24 -0400 (EDT) Len Brown wrote: > applied > > thanks, > Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > How about we just replace these with the following? > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > > index 3a22eb9..cf7e7c2 100644 > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig > > @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ config DRM_I915 > > select FB_CFB_COPYAREA > > select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT > > select FB > > + select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI > > tristate "i915 driver" > > help > > Choose this option if you have a system that has Intel 830M, 845G, You applied this a week ago, but it isn't in mainline or linux-next. We La described it as fixing a regression and David John said : Can you forward this patch to Linus? This regression breaks quite a : few configs where ACPI Video is compiled as a module and i915 is built : in. This should have been in stable, but I guess it's too late now. So... wazzup?