From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:08:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050221190812.GA30832@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105021813146cf69759@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl (jonsmirl@gmail.com) said:
> Is there a specific reason why they are blocked?
>
> For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will
> require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back
> up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess with the
> hardware from user space. Mode setting would come from the framebuffer
> driver instead of the X 2D XAA driver.
If it's a hard module dep, I don't see how that would be a problem;
that would ignore the blacklist.
Bill
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-21 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-18 20:51 Hotplug blacklist and video devices Jon Smirl
2005-02-18 21:08 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-02-18 21:14 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-18 22:58 ` Michel Dänzer
2005-02-18 23:35 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-19 12:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-02-19 15:56 ` Jon Smirl
2005-02-19 16:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-02-19 19:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2005-02-21 19:08 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
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