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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm2: intelfb/AGP unknown symbols
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:08:32 +0800
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Saturday 30 October 2004 19:34, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > What's wrong with exporting the symbols back again?
>
> if they are the right api to use; nothing. If they aren't (and what you
> describe somehow suggests they aren't) it sounds better to make the
> frontend usable for the intelfb driver instead...
>

I think the functions are the right API to use for clients within the
kernel.  The frontend is directed more for userspace clients. 

The old interface was to do an inter_module_get/put, but this is to
be deprecated. And all it does is to provide all the backend functions
to the requestor.

Either  a new interface is provided by agpgart, otherwise, not just intelfb
and i810fb will be affected, but also DRM (which currently uses
inter_module_get/put("drm_agp")).

If I remember correctly, the DRI people also have a new patch that removes
inter_module_get/put and they did it by calling the backend functions directly.

Tony